# né
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /neɪ/
* Rhymes: -eɪ
* Homophones: nay, neigh

### Etymology 1

From French né, from Old French né, from Latin nātus, perfect active participle of nāscor (“I am born”). Doublet of nada.

#### Adjective

né (not comparable)
* (rare, usually italicised) Used to specify the original name of a person.
    Coordinate terms: nés, née, nées
    Sting, né Gordon Sumner
** 1987, Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, William Heinemann Ltd, page 23:It remained in the custody of Mr Svlad, or "Dirk", Gently, né Cjelli.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Afrikaans nee.

#### Particle

né
* (South Africa) Yeah? not so? hey?
    so I saw this girl né, and I wanted to talk to her...

### Anagrams

* -en, en-, en, EN, En

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ne/
* Rhymes: -e

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French né, from Latin nātus, from earlier gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (“begotten, produced”), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth”).

#### Participle

né (feminine née, masculine plural nés, feminine plural nées)
* past participle of naître

### Etymology 2

Hispanic pronunciation.

#### Particle

né
* (nonstandard) Alternative form of ne

### Further reading

* “né”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* en

## Ghomala'
### Particle

né (lexical tone unattested)
* Marker of focus, postposed
    Fôŋkám né gɔtí tsʉ́ ŋkədé. ― [It is] Fokam [who] will eat a banana.

#### Related terms

* lé
* lə́
* pə́
* tə́
* á

### References

* Minette Corrine Mokam Foko (2020), The Morphosyntax of Ghɔmáláʼ Verbs: Focus on Inherent Complement Verbs and Serial Verb Constructions

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Clipping of nézd, the second-person singular subjunctive definite of néz (“to look”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈneː]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -neː

### Interjection

né
* (folksy) look!, see! (expressing surprise or wanting to get attention)

### See also

* -né (“Mrs, wife of”, suffix)

### Further reading

* (“look!”): né in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (regional form of the interjection ne): né , usually as part of the phrase Ne te ne, ne te né, or né te né!, redirecting to (3): ne in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse né, from Proto-Germanic *nehw.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /njɛː/
* Rhymes: -ɛː

### Conjunction

né
* nor (used with hvorki meaning "neither")
    Ég er hvorki svangur né þyrstur.I'm neither hungry nor thirsty.
    Maðurinn hennar er hvorki klár né hnyttinn.Her husband is neither smart nor witty.

#### Derived terms

* gera hvorki til né frá
* geta hvorki hrært legg né lið
* hvorki fugl né fiskur
* hvorki fyrr né síðar
* hvorki tangur né tetur
* hvorki æmta né skræmta

## Isthmus Zapotec
### Preposition

né
* with

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* nè (misspelling)

### Etymology

From Latin nec.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ne/$^*$
* Rhymes: -e
* Hyphenation: né

### Conjunction

né
* nor
* neither … nor
** 2015, “Gaetano”, in Mainstream, performed by Calcutta:Volevo avere dei figli, né troppi né pochi, né tardi né domaniI wanted to have children, neither too many, nor [too] few, neither [too] late, nor [already] tomorrow

### References

* ↑ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951; headword né

## Mandarin
### Alternative forms

* ne — nonstandard

### Romanization

né (ne$^2$, Zhuyin ㄋㄜˊ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 哪
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 那

## Norman
### Etymology 1

From Old French noi and its variants, from Latin nix, nivem.

#### Noun

né f (uncountable)
* (Jersey) snow

##### Alternative forms

* neis (Guernsey)

##### Derived terms

* boule dé né
* né fondue

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

né m
* Alternative form of nièr

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin nātus.

### Verb

né (oblique and nominative feminine singular nee)
* past participle of naistre

#### Descendants

* French: né

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Norse ᚾᛁ (ni), from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”). The word can be seen in fossilized prefixes such as nǫkkurr, neinn (né einn). It is still part of the core lexicon in modern Icelandic, it is used when negating conjunctions similar to English nor. Its cognates in the Old West/East Germanic languages are Old English ne, Old Frisian ne, ni, Old Saxon ne, ni, Old Dutch ne, Old High German ni, Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni).

#### Particle

né
* (archaic) not
    Synonyms: eigi, -at

##### Usage notes

As can be seen in the Vǫluspá line Ǫnd þau né átto, óð þau né hǫfðo (Spirit they possessed not, sense they had not), né precedes the verb it modifies. This is unlike the synonyms eigi and -at, which follow it, but just like the cognates in the other old Germanic languages.

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *nehw (“nor”), cognate with Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌷 (nih). From *ne (“not”) +‎ *-hw (“and”).

#### Conjunction

né
* nor

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: né

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Contraction of não é.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnɛ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈnɛ/
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Hyphenation: né

### Contraction

né?
* (colloquial, interrogatory) Contraction of não é; used as a tag question to ask for someone's opinion: isn't it (so); innit; right
    Você já comeu, né?You have already eaten, right?
* (colloquial, often interrogatory) Expresses that something is obvious: duh; obviously
    Do que é feito um anel de diamante? De diamantes, né?!What is a diamond ring made of? Diamonds, obviously!

## Venetan
### Conjunction

né
* neither, nor

### Adverb

né
* from

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [nɛ˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [nɛ˨˩˦]
* (Saigon) IPA: [nɛ˦˥]

### Verb

né • (你)
* (colloquial) to avoid; to dodge

#### Derived terms

* né tránh
* tránh né