ni-

From Slavic ne-. Compare Romanian ne-.

ni-

1. un-; de- (used to negate)

From ning-, itself from ming-.

• IPA^(key): /ni/ [n̪ɪ]

ni- (infinitive & future mo-, mu-)

1. alternative form of ming-

   Nikaon ko.

   I ate.

• The forms ming- and mi- are only ever used in formal contexts, ning- and are more common in daily conversation.

• n- (before vowels)

ni-

1. Subject prefix for verbs; indicates that the subject is first person singular: I.

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ni-

1. look at

• n-

ni-

1. I (used for conjugating verbs to the subjective or nominative case of the personal pronoun)

From Proto-Iroquoian *ijiː.

ni-

1. pronominal prefix for

   They both (m) ____

-	Initial consonant
Environment	t/s/h/k	n/r/w/’	a	e/en	o/on	i	y
Word-Initial	ni-	ni-	i-	n-	n-	n-	ni-

ni-

1. partitive prefix

• Gunther Michelson (1973) A thousand words of Mohawk, University of Ottawa Press, page 9
• Nora Deering, Helga H. Delisle (1976) Mohawk: A teaching grammar (preliminary version), Quebec: Manitou College, pages 147, 172

ni-

1. used to form the days of the week

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

• IPA^(key): /nɪ̀-/

ni-

1. Marks a noun as being have a second-person singular possessor

   ‎ni- + ‎bijaaʼ (“one's ear”) → ‎nijaaʼ (“your ear”)

2. Marks a postposition as having a second-person singular object

   ‎ni- + ‎bikʼi (“upon him/her/it”) → ‎nikʼi (“upon you”)

3. Marks a verb as having a second-person singular subject

   ‎ni- + ‎yicha (“he/she is crying”) → ‎nicha (“you're crying”)

• á-
• ał-
• ahił-

ni-

2. Marks a verb as belonging to the ni-imperfective paradigm, which contains verbs confined to the momentaneous aspect.

ni-

2. Marks a verb as belonging to the terminative subaspect, marking the cessation or end of an action.

ni-

2. Forms neuter imperfective/adjectival verbs

   niłdził ― to be strong, stable, firm (ni-ł-dził)

ni-

2. A thematic prefix

Same as the word nid, from Old Norse níð.

• IPA^(key): /niː/

ni-

1. uninterrupted, intensely
2. very, a lot

• “ni-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ni-” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Doublet of nid. From Old Norse níð, from Proto-Germanic *nīþą.

ni-

1. Used as an intensifier, especially in verbs

• “ni-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• In, in, ni

ni-

1. A prefix denoting the first person

ni- is the unmarked form, and appears before stems that begin with the consonants p, t, k, h, ch, m, n, s, sh, w, and y. In animate intransitive verbs (vai) and transitive inanimate verbs (vti) conjugations, ni- or one of its alternative forms can act as part of a pair of affixes, with the affix -min (or a variant) to form the first person plural exclusive . In transitive animate verbs (vta) - that is verbs where the subject and the object are both animate - ni- can indicate that either the subject or the object is first-person (singular or plural), according to the rules of topicality hierarchy.

• im-
• in-
• ind-
• indo-
• n-
• nim-
• nin-
• nind-
• nindo-
• niy-
• nd-
• ndo-

• niin
• niinawind

ni-

1. alternative spelling of ani-

From earlier *niwi-, before a regular sound change in which non-word-initial *w was lost before fully unstressed *i. The same sound change occurred to ǣ (“law”) ← *ǣi ← *āwi, sǣ (“sea”) ← *sǣi ← *sāwi, and glī (“joy”) ← *gliwi. It must have also occurred to nīewe (“new”) in the nominative singular, producing *nī ← *niwi, but its *w was restored by analogy with its inflected forms, which had a following *j instead of *i.

• IPA^(key): /niː/

nī-

1. new-, newly

• (Standard) IPA^(key): /ni/

ni-

1. (personal) I, first-person singular subject marker.

   Niaw nimumachtia Nawat

   I'm going to learn Nawat

• naja (personal pronoun)
• nech- (object marker)

ni- (Cyrillic spelling ни-)

1. Prefix prepended to pronouns to denote a negative meaning, synonymous with ne- (“no, not”).

   igdje ili nigdje. ― anywhere or nowhere

   itko ili nitko. ― anyone or no one

   ikad ili nikad. ― anytime or never

2. Prefix prepended to copula verb biti in present tense to denote a negative meaning, synonymous with ne- (“not”).

   Bio sam tu ali nisam bio tamo. ― I was here but I was not there.

Other scripts
Ajami	نِـ

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ni-

1. I, 1st person singular subject concord

   Antonym: si-

   ninakupenda ― I like you

   • 18th century, Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir, Al-Inkishafi‎^[1], translation from R. Allen (1946) “Inkishafi—a translation from the Swahili”, in African Studies, volume 5, number 4, →DOI, pages 243–249, stanza 6:

     نِيَضِهِرِشِ يَغُ مَقَالِ ، اَبَيُ مُيُوْنِ نِقُصُدِيِ

     Niyaḍihirishe yangu maqali, ambayo moyoni niquṣudiye.

     Let me set forth the plan which I have in my heart.

2. verb-initial form of -ni- (“me, 1st person singular object concord”)

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀-, via an intermediate form *mɪ̀-.

ni-

1. you, you all; second-person plural subject concord.

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ́-, via an intermediate form *mɪ́-.

ni-

1. you, you all; second-person plural object concord.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ni/ [n̪ɪ]
• Syllabification: ni-

ni- (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒ)

1. alternative form of -in-

• Used when ⟨l⟩, ⟨r⟩, or ⟨y⟩, is at the start of the root.

Cognate with Tehit n- (“second-person prefix”).

ni- (Jawi ني-)

1. second-person plural clitic, you all

ni- (Jawi ني-)

1. second-person singular possessive pronoun, your

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *ǹ-

ni-

1. 1st person singular subject concord, I

• IPA^(key): /ˌniː/, /nɪ/

ni-

1. nasal mutation of di-

Cognate with Ternate ni-.

• IPA^(key): /n̪i/

ni-

1. second-person singular possessive prefix, your

• IPA^(key): /n̪i/

ni-

1. alternative form of na- (“our (inclusive)”) when preceded by a root-initial i

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀-, via an intermediate form *mɪ̀-.

ni-

1. you, you all; second-person plural subject concord.

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ́-, via an intermediate form *mɪ́-.

ni-

1. you, you all; second-person plural object concord.

• n-

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *ǹ-

ni-

1. 1st person singular subject concord.

Alexander Hetherwick, Rev. A Handbook of the Yao Language, 1902

• IPA^(key): [ni-]

ni-

1. Allomorph of n- (third-person prefix) used for stems that begin with a consonant.

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀-, via an intermediate form *mɪ̀-.

ni-

1. you, you all; second-person plural subject concord.

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ́-, via an intermediate form *mɪ́-.

ní-

1. you, you all; second-person plural object concord.

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “ni-”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “ni-”