A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.s2.76

v3.c17.s2.76

In Hindi नहि and नहीं are used to mean simply “not,” and if they ever had any verbal meaning, have now quite lost it. In Sindhi the negative prefixed merely coalesces with it, without in any way influencing it, or bringing about any change in its form; thus नाहि or नआहे “he is not.”