एन

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एन (en) (plural)

1. you

• “एन”, in खालिङ - नेपाली - अङ्‍ग्रेजी शब्दकोश (Khaling - Nepali - English Dictionary), Nepal: SIL International, 2016.

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háynas, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)óynos. In Indo-Iranian, *Háynas in the sense "one" was replaced by *Háywas and *Háykas, and the usage of *Háynas became restricted to a demonstrative pronoun meaning "that". In Sanskrit, this pronoun is only found enclitically and in some oblique cases and numbers. In Vedic, the genitive and locative dual were एनोस् (enos).

Cognate with Old Latin oinos (Latin ūnus), Oscan 𐌖𐌉𐌍𐌖𐌔 (uinus), Umbrian 𐌖𐌍𐌔 (uns), Russian оди́н (odín), Old Irish óen (whence Irish aon), Belarusian адзі́н (adzín), Bulgarian еди́н (edín), Serbo-Croatian јѐдан, jèdan, Slovene édən, Polish jeden, Czech jeden, Ukrainian оди́н (odýn), Rusyn єде́н (jedén), Slovincian jȧ̃děn, Lithuanian vienas, Old Prussian ains, Latvian viêns, Dutch een, Ancient Greek οἴνη (oínē), Old Church Slavonic ѥдинъ (jedinŭ), German ein, Old Norse einn (whence Danish en, Swedish en, Icelandic einn), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (ains), Old English ān (whence English one, an).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐj.nɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈeː.n̪ɐ/

एन • (ena)

1. third-person pronominal base meaning this; that; he; she; it (only found enclitically in a limited number of cases and numbers)

This pronoun is usually enclitic and should not begin a sentence. It is also only found in a limited number of cases. For other cases, अयम् m (ayam), इयम् f (iyam), and इदम् n (idam) may be used, respectively.

• Monier Williams (1899), “एन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 232, column 1.