nə
Azerbaijani
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”),[1] the only Turkic root beginning with /n/. "The earliest [Proto-Turkic] form must have contained a unique initial nasal (generally nasals were not allowed word-initially), having yielded specific reflexes in modern languages."[1]
Cognate with Bashkir ни (ni, “what”), Chuvash мӗн (mĕn, “what”), Karakhanid [script needed] (nē, “what”), Kazakh не (ne, “what”), Khakas ниме (nime, “what”), Kyrgyz не (ne, “what”), Old Turkic 𐰤𐰀 (ne, “what, which”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ne, “what”), Tatar ни (ni, “what”), Turkish ne (“what”), Turkmen nǟmä (“what”), Tuvan чүү (çüü, “what”), Uyghur نېمە (nëme, “what”), Uzbek na (“what”), Yakut туох (tuoq, “what”).[1]
Pronoun
[edit]nə (definite accusative nəyi, plural nələr)
- what
- 2017, Vahid Çəmənli, Hər şey yaxşıya doğru:
- Babam durub oturdu, mən də qaça – qaça onların yanına gəldim ki, görüm, Əyyub dayı nə deyir, babam nə deyir.
- My grandfather sat back down, while I run towards them to see what uncle Əyyub and my grandfather have to say.
- whatever
- Nə olur olsun!
- Come whatever may!
Declension
[edit]The words nə and su (and sometimes mövqe) are the only ones in Azerbaijani to take a y in the singular accusative, genitive, and dative cases, and in the singular possessive forms.
Declension of nə | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | nə |
nələr | ||||||
definite accusative | nəyi |
nələri | ||||||
dative | nəyə |
nələrə | ||||||
locative | nədə |
nələrdə | ||||||
ablative | nədən |
nələrdən | ||||||
definite genitive | nəyin |
nələrin |
Derived terms
[edit]Determiner
[edit]nə
See also
[edit]English | Azerbaijani |
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what | nə, (dialectal) nəmənə |
who | kim |
which | hansı |
which (in a numbered series) | neçənci |
who (by occupation) | nəçi |
who (by origin) | haralı |
where (which place) | hara, hayan, (colloquial) hanı, (dialectal) həncəri |
where (at which place) | harada, hayanda |
whither (to which place) | hara, haraya, hayana |
whence (from which place) | haradan, hayandan |
when | nə vaxt, nə zaman, haçan, (colloquial) havaxt |
why | niyə, nə üçün, neyçün |
how | necə, nətər, nə təhər, (archaic) nə tövr, nə cür, (dialectal) həncəri |
how much | nə qədər |
how many | neçə |
Etymology 2
[edit]From Persian نه (na). Cognate to Old English ne (“not”).
Conjunction
[edit]nə
- neither; nor
- 2000, Firidun Ağasıoğlu, Azər xalqı:
- özləri isə nə məğlub, nə də başqasının hakimiyətinə tabe olmuşlar
- while they were neither defeated nor subjugated to foreign rule themselves
Usage notes
[edit]- Not used alone but rather as nə...nə..., the way it is used is directly copied from Persian نه...نه...(“neither; nor”). Often used in form of nə + nə də.
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*nē-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill.
Khalaj
[edit]Perso-Arabic | نه |
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”).
Adverb
[edit]nə
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- nâşmaq (“to do what”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]nə ... nə ...
Usage notes
[edit]- Not used alone but rather as nə...nə..., the way it is used is directly copied from Persian نه...نه...(“neither; nor”).
References
[edit]- Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1988) Grammatik des Chaladsch [Grammar of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, →OCLC
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