né

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

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

né (not comparable)

1. (uncommon, usually italicised) Used when giving the former name of a man.

   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.

Borrowed from Afrikaans nee.

né

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

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

• -en, en-, en, EN, En

• IPA^(key): /ne/
• Rhymes: -e

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”).

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

1. past participle of naître

Hispanic pronunciation.

né

1. (nonstandard) alternative form of ne

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

• en

né (lexical tone unattested)

1. Marker of focus, postposed

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈneː]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -neː

né

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

• -né (“Mrs, wife of”, suffix)

• (“look!”): né in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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 Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

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

• IPA^(key): /njɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɛː

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.

né

1. with

• nè (misspelling)

From Latin nec.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ne/^*[2]
• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: né

né

1. nor
   • 2020, Pop X, “D'Annunzio”, in Antille [Antilles]:

     E ballando, si mise a scrivere parole magiche e pensieri senza senso né attitudine

     And dancing, he began to write magical words and thoughts without meaning nor aptitude

2. neither … nor
   • 2015, Calcutta, “Gaetano”, in Mainstream:

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

     I wanted to have children, neither too many, nor [too] few, neither [too] late, nor [already] tomorrow

• senza capo né coda, né capo né coda
• né carne né pesce

• ne — nonstandard

né (ne², Zhuyin ㄋㄜˊ)

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

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

né f (uncountable)

1. (Jersey) snow

• neis (Guernsey)

• boule dé né
• né fondue

né m

1. alternative form of nièr

From Latin nātus.

né (oblique and nominative feminine singular nee)

1. past participle of naistre

• French: né

From Proto-Norse ᚾᛁ (ni), from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *né (“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).

né

1. (archaic) not

   Synonyms: eigi, -at

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.

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

né

1. nor

• Icelandic: né

Contraction of não é.

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: né

né?

1. (colloquial, interrogatory) contraction of não é (“is not”), 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; commonly spoken with emphasis; duh; obviously

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

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

né

1. neither, nor

né

1. from

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

né • (你)

1. (colloquial) to avoid; to dodge