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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?f/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French nef. Doublet of nave and nau.

Noun

nef (plural nefs)

1. An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.

Synonyms

• cadenas

See also

• navicula

Etymology 2

Short for numerically effective; introduced by Miles Reid.

Adjective

nef (not comparable)

1. (algebraic geometry) Of a line bundle on a complete algebraic variety over a field: such that the degree of its restriction to every algebraic curve in the variety is non-negative.

Derived terms

• nefness

Anagrams

• ENF, fen

French

Etymology

From Middle French nef, from Old French nef, from Latin n?vis, n?vem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh?us. Displaced by bateau and navire in the sense of "boat".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?f/

Noun

nef f (plural nefs)

1. (obsolete or poetic) barque, boat
2. nave

Related terms

• nacelle
• naval
• navire

See also

• barque
• vaisseau

Descendants

• ? Breton: nev

Further reading

• “nef” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse nef, from Proto-Germanic *nabj?. Cognate with English neb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Noun

nef n (genitive singular nefs, nominative plural nef)

1. nose
2. beak

Declension

Derived terms

• taka í nefið (to take snuff)
• fitja upp á nefið (to turn up one's nose)
• með nefið ofan í hvers manns koppi (nosy)
• stökkva upp á nef sér (to flare up, to get angry)
• neflaus
• hafa bein í nefinu

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French neuf.

Numeral

nef

1. nine

Adjective

nef

1. new

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French nef, from Latin n?vis, n?vem.

Noun

nef f (plural nefs or nefz)

1. boat; ship; watercraft

Descendants

• French: nef (obsolete or poetic)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin n?vis, n?vem.

Noun

nef f (oblique plural nés, nominative singular nef, nominative plural nés)

1. boat; ship; watercraft

Related terms

• nacele

Descendants

• Middle French: nef
  • French: nef (obsolete or poetic)

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *nabj?.

Noun

nef n (genitive nefs, plural nef)

1. nose
2. beak

Declension

Descendants

• Danish: næb
• Faroese: nev
• Icelandic: nef

Volapük

Noun

nef (nominative plural nefs)

1. nephew
2. niece

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh new, from Old Welsh nem, from Proto-Brythonic *ne??, from Proto-Celtic *nemos, from Proto-Indo-European *néb?os (“cloud”). Cognate with Breton neñv, Cornish nev and Irish neamh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?v/

Noun

nef f (plural nefoedd, not mutable)

1. heaven

Synonyms

• nen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni?f/

Etymology 1

From Old French [Term?], from Latin nativus (“natural”). Doublet of naif and native.

Noun

nief (plural niefs)

1. (historical) A serf or bondsman born into servitude.
   • 1886, "The Fight at the Pass of Coleshill", The Red Dragon "Notes and Queries", page 471

     That is, because the girl was his nief, or bondwoman, the daughter of one of his villains

Alternative forms

• neif

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English neve, Old Norse hnefi, nefi, of unknown origin.

Noun

nief (plural niefs or nieves)

1. (chiefly Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) A fist. [from 14th c.]
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 597:

     Ake thought if ever he was walking alone on a dark-like night and Jimmy came on him, he with his bare nieves and Jimmy with a knife, he'd stand as much chance of getting home safe as a celluloid cat that had strayed into hell….

   • 1989, Anthony Burgess, The Devil's Mode:

     Nestorius exploded at that and hit out. He roared and dismissed the class, hitting out with his old mottled gnarled niefs.

   • 2004, Jeff Silverman, The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told, p. 160:

     "But t' Maister can stop and hit rarely. Happen he'll mak' him joomp when he gets his nief upon him."

Alternative forms

• neif
• nieve

Translations

Anagrams

• Enif, Fein, Fine, NiFe, feni, fine, ifen, neif, nife

Middle English

Noun

nief

1. Alternative form of neve (“nephew”)

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• nyef (alternative spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nje?]

Noun

nief f (plural nieues)

1. Apocopic form of nieue (“snow”)
   • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 5v.

     Et los egiptianos llaman le la nief de acin ¬ e?to es por que a color blanca.

     And the Egyptians called it the snow of Acin, because of its white color.