deyil

Azerbaijani
Other scripts
Cyrillic дејил
Abjad classical sp دگل
new sp دئییل, دگیل

Etymology

From Classical Azerbaijani دگل (dəgül), from Proto-Turkic *degül (“is not”).[1] Cognate with Turkish değil.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdejil/
  • (Tabriz) IPA(key): /ˈdædʒil/, /dæːl/[2]
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  • Hyphenation: de‧yil
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Adverb

deyil

  1. not (negates the verb *imək (“to be”))
    Bura Amerika deyil. ― This is not America.
    Onlar varlı deyillər. ― They are not rich.
    Biz buna razı deyildik. ― We were not okay with this, we did not agree to this.
    Sən xoşbəxt ola bilərsən, amma mən deyiləm. ― You may be happy, but I am not.
    Siz evli deyilsiniz bəyəm? ― Aren't you married?

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*degül”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill.
  2. Dehghani, Yavar (2000) A grammar of Iranian Azeri: including comparisons with Persian, Munich: Lincom Europa, page 124: “The negative morpheme is no longer /mA/ in the copular construction. Instead it is /dägil/ which is preceded by the noun, adjective, or adverb, and followed by the copular suffix, as in: /kiši dägil-yäm/ 'I am not a man.'”
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