Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/nē-

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Turkic

Pronoun

*nē-

  1. what

Descendants

  • Oghur:
  • Proto-Common Turkic:
  • Arghu:
  • Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: نه (ne)
      • Azerbaijani:
      • Gagauz: ne
      • Ottoman Turkish: نه (ne)
        • Turkish: ne
    • Turkmen:
  • Kipchak:
    • Kipchak-Bulgar:
    • Kipchak-Cuman:
      • Kipchak: ne (Codex Cumanicus)
    • Kipchak-Nogai:
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: не (ne)
      • Southern Altai: не (ne)
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: نا (/⁠nē⁠/)
      • Chagatai:
  • Siberian Turkic:
    • Old Turkic: 𐰤𐰀 (n²a)
    • Old Uyghur: [Term?] (/⁠ne⁠/)
      • Western Yugur: [script needed] (ni)
    • North Siberian Turkic:
    • South Siberian Turkic:
  • Proto-Turkic: *nēme
  • Oghur:
  • Proto-Common Turkic:

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ne:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 774
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) “nä”, in Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 352
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ne”, in Nişanyan Sözlük