ní ind. down, back, in, into, within (except, [AV. x, 8, 7] always prefixed either to verbs or to nouns; in the latter case it has also the meaning of negation or privation [cf. ‘down-hearted’ = heartless]; sometimes w.r. for nis)
it may also express kṣepa, dāna, upa-rama, ā-śraya, mokṣa &c., [L.]
[cf. Zd. ni; Gk. ἐ-νί; Slav. ni-zu; Germ., ni-dar, ni-der, nieder; Angl.Sax. ni-ther, Eng. ne-ther, be-neath.]
(for nī) mfn. See ṛta-ní.
(in music) the 7th note (for niṣadha).