nen

nen

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nengone.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nengone terms

nen

1. (Geordie) none

• NNE

nen

1. elder brother

From ne (“interrogatory root”) +‎ n (“person”). See nep, nekon.

• IPA^(key): [ne̞n]

nen (Kana spelling ネン)

1. (interrogative) who

• hunna

Variant of nyjë, nye (“article; joint”), whose stem was originally nen-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnen/
• Rhymes: -en

nen m (plural nene, definite neni, definite plural nenet)

1. paragraph, article, section, clause (of a law, statute or contract)
2. (regional) ankle

   Synonyms: nyell, sy, noçkë

• FGJSSH (1980), page 1226b: “nen,~i¹”, “nen,~i²”
• Çabej SEFSH, pages 377f.: “nye”

nên

1. Gheg form of nën

• Mann (1948), page 314a: “nên”
• Bashkimi (1908), page 289a: “nên”; Jungg (1895), page 90a: “nnen” → “nen”
• Rossi (1875), page 907b: “nnèn”; Meyer (1891), page 299: “ndɛ” → “nnęn”

Akin to nenë (“amaranth”) and nenexhik (“mint”), ultimately from Ottoman Turkish نانه (nane, “mint”).

nên m (dialectal, Lezhë)

1. fragrant plant, perhaps thyme, or mint

• Mann (1948), page 314a: “nên”

• nin (Mallorca)

From Vulgar Latin *ninnus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈnɛn]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈnen]

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nen m (plural nens, feminine nena, feminine plural nenes)

1. boy, male child

   Synonym: nano

• “nen”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “nen”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “nen” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nen” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

nen

1. ceiling

• http://www.cornishdictionary.org.uk/

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nen

1. (Brabant) alternative form of ne

   nen boom

   a tree

See usage notes at ne.

nen

1. nonstandard form of 'n

From French nez (“nose”).

• IPA^(key): /nɛ̃/

nen

1. nose

nen

1. Rōmaji transcription of ねん

nen

1. some

nen

1. nonstandard spelling of nèn

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Probably shortened from Old Saxon nihen (“not one”).

• Stem vowel: ê²
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /nɛːn/

nên

1. no, none; used and inflected in the same way as the article ên.
   • ca. 1485, author unknown, Van deme quaden thyra̅ne Dracole wyda., published by Bartholomaeus Gothan, verso of the 5th sheet:

     Gy ſynt de ſnodeſte vn̅ de groteſte thiran. den men vinden mach in alle der werlnde_[sic]. vn̅ ik hebbe nene̅ minſche̅ ny gheſeen noch ghehort de iuw ye wat gudes na ſecht heft.

     You are the vilest and greatest tyrant that one might find in all the world, and I have not seen nor heard one human, that has ever said a good thing about you.

From Latin nōn (“not”), with the -n surviving intervocalically.

nen

1. (before vowels) alternative form of ne (“not”)
   • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland‎^[1], lines 7–9:

     Li reis Marsilie la tient, ki Deu nen aimet; / Mahumet sert e Apollin recleimet: / Nes poet guarder que mals ne l'i ateignet.

     The king Marsile rules it [Zaragoza], [he] who doesn't love God; he worships Mohammed and prays to Apollin: he cannot escape from the evil that approaches him.

Mainly used to metric reasons in poems, to gain a syllable.

• nān

Blend of ne (“not”) +‎ ēn (“one”). Akin to Old English nān.

• IPA^(key): /ˈneːn/, [ˈnɛːn]

nēn

1. no, not one

nēn

1. none, no-one, nobody

• North Frisian: nån, neen, niin
• Saterland Frisian: neen, naan
• West Frisian: neen

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

From Latin nec.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnẽ/

nen

1. not even (introduces an emphatic negation or exclusion)
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 30 (facsimile):

     Nen ela outroſſi anos de nõ pode Se deus Maiude dizer q̇ nõ rogue de coraçõ

     Not even she can’t tell us, if God helps me, that one shouldn’t beg heartily

nen

1. nor (introduces each except the first term of a series, indicating that none of them is true)
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 6 (facsimile):

     Porend a ſant eſcritura que non mente nen erra nos conta un gn̈ miragre que fez en Engra terra. A uirgen ſanta maria.

     However, the Holy Scripture, which doesn’t lie nor err, tells of a great miracle that Virgin Holy Mary worked in England.

• Fala: nin
• Galician: nin
• Portuguese: nem

• neen
• nian
• nein

By surface analysis, a contraction of ne + en.

nēn

1. no, not one

nen

1. no
   • 9th c. Heliand, verse 1522-1523

     ...queđe iā, gef it sī, [geha] thes thār wār is, queđe nēn, af it nis, [lāta] im genōg an thiu;...

     ...say yes, if it be, confess of that where the truth is, say no, if it is not, let enough (for) him in that;...

• ja

Köbler, Gerhard (2014) Altsächsisches Wörterbuch‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition

• IPA^(key): /ˈnen/ [ˈnẽn]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: nen

nen

1. obsolete form of ni (“neither, nor”)

• “nen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From English name.

nen

1. name

• deinen

nen

1. without

• Rhymes: -ɛn

nen f (plural nennau or nennoedd, not mutable)

1. heaven

• nef

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “nen”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies