né

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ne"

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From French né < Old French né < 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

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

Italian

Alternative forms

• nè (misspelling)

Etymology

From Latin nec.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne/^*
• Rhymes: -e

Conjunction

né

1. nor
2. neither...nor
   • 2015, “Gaetano”, in Mainstream, performed by Calcutta:

     Volevo avere dei figli, né troppi né pochi, né tardi né domani

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. either...or

Lashi

Etymology

Related to nang (“you”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne/

Pronoun

né

1. thy, your (singular)

Synonyms

• ná

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• ne — nonstandard

Romanization

né (ne², Zhuyin ㄋㄜˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 哪
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 那

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French noi and its variants, from Latin nix, nivem.

Noun

né f (uncountable)

1. (Jersey) snow

Alternative forms

• neis (Guernsey)

Derived terms

• boule dé né
• né fondue

Etymology 2

Adjective

né m

1. Alternative form of nièr

Old French

Etymology

From Latin nātus.

Verb

né (oblique and nominative feminine singular nee)

1. past participle of naistre

Descendants

• French: né

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Norse ᚾᛁ (ni), from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”). The word can be seen in fossilized prefixes such as nǫkkurr, neinn (né einn). It is still part of the core lexicon in modern Icelandic, it is used when negating conjunctions similar to English nor. Its cognates in the Old West/East Germanic languages are Old English ne, Old Frisian ne, ni, Old Saxon ne, ni, Old Dutch ne, Old High German ni, Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni).

Particle

né

1. (archaic) not

   Synonyms: eigi, -at

Usage notes

As can be seen in the Vǫluspá line Ǫnd þau né átto, óð þau né hǫfðo (Spirit they possessed not, sense they had not), né precedes the verb it modifies. This is unlike the synonyms eigi and -at, which follow it, but just like the cognates in the other old Germanic languages.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *nehw (“nor”), cognate with Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌷 (nih). From *ne (“not”) +‎ *-hw (“and”).

Conjunction

né

1. nor

Descendants

• Icelandic: né

Portuguese

Etymology

Contraction of não é.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ/

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: né

Contraction

né?

1. (colloquial, interrogatory) Contraction of não é; used as a tag question to ask for someone's opinion: isn't it (so); innit; right

   Você já comeu, né?

   You have already eaten, right?

2. (colloquial, often interrogatory) Expresses that something is obvious: duh; obviously

   Do que é feito um anel de diamante? De diamantes, né?!

   What is a diamond ring made of? Diamonds, obviously!

Venetan

Conjunction

né

1. neither, nor

Adverb

né

1. from

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [nɛ˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [nɛ˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [nɛ˦˥]

Verb

né • (你)

1. (colloquial) to avoid; to dodge

Derived terms

Derived terms

• né tránh
• tránh né