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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

(not comparable)

  1. (rare, usually italicised) Used to specify the original name of a person.
    Coordinate terms: nés, née, nées
    Sting, Gordon Sumner

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Afrikaans nee.

Particle

  1. (South Africa) Yeah? not so? hey?
    so I saw this girl , and I wanted to talk to her...

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French , 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

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

  1. past participle of naître

Etymology 2

Hispanic pronunciation.

Particle

  1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of ne

Further reading

Anagrams

Ghomala'

Particle

(lexical tone unattested)

  1. Marker of focus, postposed
    Fôŋkám gɔtí tsʉ́ ŋkədé.[It is] Fokam [who] will eat a banana.

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:(file)
  • Rhymes: -neː

Interjection

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

See also

  • -né (Mrs, wife of, suffix)

Further reading

  • (“look!”): 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): , 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 , from Proto-Germanic *nehw.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

  1. nor (used with hvorki meaning "neither")
    Ég er hvorki svangur þyrstur.
    I'm neither hungry nor thirsty.
    Maðurinn hennar er hvorki klár 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

  1. with

Italian

Mandarin

Norman

Old French

Old Norse

Portuguese

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