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𐰤𐰀
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Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”). Cognate with Chuvash мӗн (mĕn), Turkish ne, Uzbek na, Bashkir ни (ni), Tuvan чүү (çüü).
Pronoun
𐰤𐰀 (ne)
- what
- 8th century CE, Tonyukuk Inscription, IN8
- 𐰋𐰤:𐰾𐰭𐰀:𐰤𐰀:𐰖𐰖𐰃𐰤:𐱅𐰃𐰓𐰃
- ben:saŋa:ne:ayayïn:tédi
- 'What (else) shall I say to you?' he said.
- 8th century CE, Tonyukuk Inscription, IN8
Derived terms
- 𐰤𐰏𐰇 (negü, “where”)
- 𐰤𐰚𐰀 (neke, “why”)
- 𐰤𐰠𐰝 (nelük, “why”)
- 𐰤𐰤𐰲𐰀 (nenče, “so much”)
- 𐰤𐰭 (neŋ, “any, whatever”)
- 𐰤𐰲𐰝 (nečük, “how”)
- 𐰤𐱅𐰏 (neteg, “like what, how”)
References
- Tekin, Talât (1968), “nä”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 356
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ne:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 747
- 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
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