né

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ne"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: nay, neigh

Etymology 1

From French né, from Old French né, from Latin nātus, perfect active participle of nāscor (“I am born”). Doublet of nada.

Adjective

né (not comparable)

1. (rare, usually italicised) Used to specify the original name of a person.

   Coordinate terms: nés, née, nées

   Sting, né Gordon Sumner

   • 1987, Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, William Heinemann Ltd, page 23:

     It remained in the custody of Mr Svlad, or "Dirk", Gently, né Cjelli.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Afrikaans nee.

Particle

né

1. (South Africa) Yeah? not so? hey?

   so I saw this girl né, and I wanted to talk to her...

Anagrams

• -en, en-, en, EN, En

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne/
• Rhymes: -e

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French né, from Latin nātus, from earlier gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (“begotten, produced”), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth”).

Participle

né (feminine née, masculine plural nés, feminine plural nées)

1. past participle of naître

Etymology 2

Hispanic pronunciation.

Particle

né

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of ne

Further reading

• “né”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• en

Ghomala'

Particle

né (lexical tone unattested)

1. Marker of focus, postposed

   Fôŋkám né gɔtí tsʉ́ ŋkədé. ― [It is] Fokam [who] will eat a banana.

Related terms

• lé
• lə́
• pə́
• tə́
• á

References

• Minette Corrine Mokam Foko (2020), The Morphosyntax of Ghɔmáláʼ Verbs: Focus on Inherent Complement Verbs and Serial Verb Constructions

Hungarian

Etymology

Clipping of nézd, the second-person singular subjunctive definite of néz (“to look”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈneː]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -neː

Interjection

né

1. (folksy) look!, see! (expressing surprise or wanting to get attention)

See also

• -né (“Mrs, wife of”, suffix)

Further reading

• (“look!”): né in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (regional form of the interjection ne): né , usually as part of the phrase Ne te ne, ne te né, or né te né!, redirecting to (3): ne in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse né, from Proto-Germanic *nehw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /njɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɛː

Conjunction

né

1. nor (used with hvorki meaning "neither")

   Ég er hvorki svangur né þyrstur.

   I'm neither hungry nor thirsty.

   Maðurinn hennar er hvorki klár né hnyttinn.

   Her husband is neither smart nor witty.

Derived terms

• gera hvorki til né frá
• geta hvorki hrært legg né lið
• hvorki fugl né fiskur
• hvorki fyrr né síðar
• hvorki tangur né tetur
• hvorki æmta né skræmta

Isthmus Zapotec

Preposition

né

1. with