nefne

• næfne, nemne

Probably cognate with Old Saxon neba, nebo, nebu (“except, unless”), Old Norse nema (“except, unless”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnef.ne/, [ˈnev.ne]

nefne

1. unless
2. except

• būtan
• nymþe

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “NEFNE”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.