𐰤𐰀

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)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• 𐰤𐰚𐰀 (neke, “why”)
• 𐰤𐰤𐰲𐰀 (nenče, “so much”)
• 𐰤𐰭 (neŋ, “any, whatever”)
• 𐰤𐰲𐰝 (nečük, “how”)
• 𐰤𐰏𐰇 (negü, “where”)
• 𐰤𐰠𐰝 (nelük, “why”)
• 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
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “nä”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 60
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ne:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 747
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*nē-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill