# nye
## English
### Etymology

Probably from French nid (“nest, brood”), Latin nidus (“nest”). Doublet of nidus and nest.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naɪ/
* Rhymes: -aɪ
* Homophone: nigh

### Noun

nye (plural nyes)
* A brood or flock of pheasants.

### Anagrams

* -yne, Ney, Yen, eny, ney, yen

## Albanian
### Noun

nye m (plural neje, definite neni, definite plural nejet)
* (Gheg) Alternative form of nyjë

## Danish
### Adjective

nye
* definite/plural of ny

## Dumbea
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naje/

### Noun

nye
* needle

### References

* Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
* Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

## Ewe
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɲɛ/

### Pronoun

nye
* I

### Verb

nye
* to swerve
* to swing

## Igbo
### Verb

nyè
* give

## Japanese
### Romanization

nye
* The katakana syllable ニェ (nye) in Hepburn-like romanization.

## Mende
### Noun

nye
* fish

## Middle English
### Noun

nye
* Alternative form of noy

## Northern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

### Adjective

-nye
* one
* another

#### Inflection
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Adjective

nye
* definite singular of ny
* plural of ny

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Adjective

nye
* definite singular of ny
* plural of ny

## Phuthi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

### Adjective

-nye
* one

#### Inflection
## Southern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

### Adjective

-nye
* one
* another

#### Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Prepositional phrase

nye
* Alternative form of naye

## Swazi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

### Adjective

-nyé
* one

#### Inflection
## Swedish
### Adjective

nye
* definite natural masculine singular of ny

## Tooro
### Pronunciation

IPA: /ɲe/

### Pronoun

nye
* I, me (first-person singular personal pronoun)
    Synonym: nyowe
    Ni nye. ― It's me.

#### Usage notes

* This shortened variant is only used after particles such as na, nka or ni.

#### See also
### References

* Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 411

## Xhosa
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

### Adjective

-nye
* one
* another

#### Inflection
## Zulu
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

### Adjective

-nye
* (with enumerative concord or copulative adjective concord) one
    Sibone muntu munye kuphela.We saw only one person.
    Ihhashi linye.The horse is one (in number).
* some
    Abantu abanye bavumelana nawe.Some people agree with you.
* another
    Ngibona inja enye.I see another dog.
* additional, more
    Ngicela amanzi amanye.Could I have some more water?

#### Usage notes

* This word only means "one" when used with the enumerative concord, or with a copulative adjective concord.
* The meaning "one" is normally used only with singular nouns. It can be used with plurale tantum nouns, in the meaning "one kind of".

#### Derived terms

* kanye
* ubunye

#### See also

* -dwa

### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “-nye”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-nye”