neke

Basque

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /neke/ [ne.ke]
  • Rhymes: -eke, -e
  • Hyphenation: ne‧ke

Noun

neke inan

  1. tiredness, fatigue, suffering, pity, toil, weariness
    Synonyms: unadura, neketasun

Declension

Declension of neke (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive neke nekea nekeak
ergative nekek nekeak nekeek
dative nekeri nekeari nekeei
genitive nekeren nekearen nekeen
comitative nekerekin nekearekin nekeekin
causative nekerengatik nekearengatik nekeengatik
benefactive nekerentzat nekearentzat nekeentzat
instrumental nekez nekeaz nekeez
inessive neketan nekean nekeetan
locative neketako nekeko nekeetako
allative neketara nekera nekeetara
terminative neketaraino nekeraino nekeetaraino
directive neketarantz nekerantz nekeetarantz
destinative neketarako nekerako nekeetarako
ablative neketatik neketik nekeetatik
partitive nekerik — —
prolative neketzat — —

Derived terms

  • nekabide
  • nekadura
  • nekaezin
  • nekagaitz
  • nekagarri
  • nekakor
  • nekaldi
  • nekaldu
  • nekarazi
  • nekatu (“to tire”)
  • nekazale
  • nekazalgo
  • nekazari (“farmer”) (see there for further derivations)
  • neke-sari (“salary”)
  • nekearen nekez (“due to great fatigue”)
  • nekepe
  • neketan
  • neketasun
  • neketsu
  • neketxo
  • nekez
  • nekez bada nekez
  • nekezia
  • nekezka
  • nekezko

Further reading

  • “neke”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
  • “neke”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Lindu

Noun

neke

  1. portion

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *neke (“to be carried by water, to float, to drift”).[1][2] Doublet of nekeneke.

Verb

neke

  1. to shift, to move slightly
  2. to indent (of text)

Noun

neke

  1. roller for a waka

Derived terms

  • neneke (“to vibrate”)
  • nekeneke (“to gradually move”)

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 184
  2. ^ Wilson, William H. (December 2012) “Whence the East Polynesians? Further Linguistic Evidence for a Northern Outlier Source”, in Oceanic Linguistics‎[2], volume 51, number 2, page 306

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English snake.

Noun

neke

  1. snake

See also

  • nākahi

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “neke”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 256
  • “neke” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Middle English

Noun

neke

  1. alternative form of nekke

Northern Kurdish

Verb

neke

  1. inflection of kirin:
    1. third-person singular negative future
    2. second-person singular negative imperative

Phuthi

Etymology

From Afrikaans nege.

Relative

-néke

  1. nine

Inflection

Relative concord
modifier copulative
1st singular legineke gineke
2nd singular loneke uneke
1st plural lesineke sineke
2nd plural lelineke lineke
class 1 loneke uneke
class 2 labaneke baneke
class 3 loneke uneke
class 4 leneke ineke
class 5 lelineke lineke
class 6 laneke aneke
class 7 lesineke sineke
class 8 letineke tineke
class 9 leneke ineke
class 10 letineke tineke
class 14 lobuneke buneke
class 15 lokuneke kuneke
class 17 lokuneke kuneke
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