ནི
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ni (existential copula); non-copula use may survive in other descendants of Proto-Bodish *ni(t) (“to sit”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ni/
- Lhasa: /niˑ/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ni/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ni
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /niˑ/
Particle
ནི • (ni)
- emphasizing particle used to thematize various elements in the sentence
- པང་གདན་ནི་སྐྱེད་དམན་ཚང་མས་གོན་གྱི་རེད།
- pang gdan ni skyed dman tshang mas gon gyi red
- Regarding aprons, every woman wears them.[1]