نېمە

Uyghur

Etymology

From *neme / *nämä "what", from Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”). -me is an interrogative formant.

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (nemä, “something”), Kyrgyz неме (neme, “something”), Kyrgyz эмне (emne, “what?”), Bashkir нимә (nimä, “what?”), Uzbek nima, Turkmen näme (“what?”), Khakas ниме (nime, “what?”), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nemɛ/

Pronoun

نېمە • (nëme)

  1. what
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