Sanskrit

Adverb

निस् • ‎(nis)

1. out, forth, away &c.

Usage notes

Rarely used independently (AV.), but normally as a prefix to verbs and their derivatives, or to nouns not immediately connected with verbs, in which case it has the sense, "out of", "away from" or that of a negative adverb.

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 543