nə
Pronunciation: /næ/
“nə” is an Azerbaijani word. Its 4 meanings in English:
pronoun
- what
- whatever
determiner
- what, which
conjunction
- neither; nor
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”), 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." Cognate with Bashkir ни (niy, “what”), Chuvash мӗн (mĕn, “what”), Karakhanid [script needed] (nē, “what”), Kazakh не (ne, “what”), Khakas…
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