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English

Pronoun

nen

1. (Tyneside) none

Anagrams

• NNE

Abinomn

Noun

nen

1. elder brother

Ainu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ne?n]

Pronoun

nen (Kana spelling ??)

1. (interrogative) who

Synonyms

• hunna

See also

Catalan

Alternative forms

• nin (“Mallorca”)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *ninus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?n?n/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?n?n/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?nen/

Noun

nen m (plural nens, feminine nena)

1. boy, male child

Further reading

• “nen” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nen” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

Cornish

Noun

nen

1. ceiling

References

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

Dutch

Article

nen

1. (Brabant) Alternative form of ne

Usage notes

See usage notes at ne.

German

Article

nen

1. Nonstandard form of 'n.

Japanese

Romanization

nen

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Ladin

Pronoun

nen

1. some

Mandarin

Romanization

nen (Zhuyin ???)

1. Nonstandard spelling of nèn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle Low German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Article

nên

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

     Gy ?ynt de ?node?te vn? de grote?te thiran. den men vinden mach in alle der werlnde_[sic]. vn? ik hebbe nene? min?che? ny ghe?een noch ghehort de iuw ye wat gudes na ?echt 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.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• n?n

Etymology

Blend of ne (“not”) +? ?n (“one”). Akin to Old English n?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ne?n/, [?n??n]

Determiner

n?n

1. no, not one

Pronoun

n?n

1. none, no-one, nobody

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: neen, naan
• West Frisian: neen

References

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

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin nec.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?/

Adverb

nen

1. not even (introduces an emphatic negation or exclusion)

   • Nen ela outro??i anos de nõ pode Se deus Maiude dizer q? nõ rogue de coraçõ

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

Conjunction

nen

1. nor (introduces each except the first term of a series, indicating that none of them is true)

   • Porend a ?ant e?critura que non mente nen erra nos conta un gn? miragre que fez en Engra terra. A uirgen ?anta maria.

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

Descendants

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

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English name.

Noun

nen

1. name

Derived terms

• deinen

Volapük

Preposition

nen

1. without

Welsh

Noun

nen f (plural nennau or nennoedd, not mutable)

1. heaven

Synonyms

• nef

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