neen

• IPA^(key): /niːn/

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• Rhymes: -iːn

neen pl (plural only)

1. (archaic, Yorkshire) The eyes.
   • 1683, George Meriton, A Yorkshire Dialogue:

     And mar her milk, Ise greet out bath my Neen.

• Nene, en- -en, nene, nēnē

From Middle Dutch neen, from Old Dutch nēn (“none, not one”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz, from Proto-Germanic *ne + *ainaz. Cognate with English none, German nein.

• IPA^(key): /neːn/
  • (Belgium) IPA^(key): [neːn]
  • (Netherlands) IPA^(key): [neɪ̯n]

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• Hyphenation: neen
• Rhymes: -eːn

neen

1. no; stressed or formal form of nee

Neen is the stressed form productively used in Flanders in both spoken and written language. It is archaic in both the spoken as well as written language in the Netherlands.

• benenen

• Berbice Creole Dutch: nene
• Jersey Dutch: nên
• Negerhollands: neen
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: nen (dated)

• nee

• IPA^(key): /neːn/
  • Rhymes: -eːn

neen

1. no

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ənəm.

neen

1. six

From Proto-Algonquian *niᐧlawa. Compare Ojibwe niin.^[1]

neèn

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

Usually precedes a verb or noun, like keèn but unlike ewò.^[2]

• Roger Williams (1643) A Key into the Language of America, London: Gregory Dexter, →OCLC, page 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /neːn/

neen

1. feminine of naan
2. neuter of naan
3. plural of naan

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “naan”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /nin/

neen

1. alternative form of nine

neen

1. (Northern Scots and Shetland) alternative form of nane

neen

1. (Northern Scots and Shetland) alternative form of nane

neen

1. (Northern Scots and Shetland) alternative form of nane

• “nine, adj., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 4 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ənəm, from Proto-Austronesian *ənəm.

neen

1. six

From Middle English nyne, from Old English nigon, from Proto-West Germanic *neun. Cognates include English nine and Scots nine.

• IPA^(key): /niːn/
• Homophone: kneen

neen

1. nine
   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 102:

     Neen chickès have hea ee-left vatherless.

     Nine chickens has he left fatherless.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 59