né
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ne"
English
Pronunciation
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)
- (rare, usually italicised) Used to specify the original name of a person.
- 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
Particle
né
- (South Africa) Yeah? not so? hey?
- so I saw this girl né, and I wanted to talk to her...
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
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)
- past participle of naître
Etymology 2
Hispanic pronunciation.
Particle
né
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of ne
Further reading
- “né”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Ghomala'
Particle
né (lexical tone unattested)
- Marker of focus, postposed
- Fôŋkám né gɔtí tsʉ́ ŋkədé. ― [It is] Fokam [who] will eat a banana.
Related terms
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
Interjection
né
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
Conjunction
né
- nor (used with hvorki meaning "neither")
- Ég er hvorki svangur né þyrstur.
- I'm neither hungry nor thirsty.
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
Italian
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Vietnamese
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