nen
- (Geordie)none
nen
- elder brother
Fromne(“interrogatory root”) +n(“person”). Seenep,nekon.
nen (Kana spellingネン)
- (interrogative)who
Ainu interrogative pronouns
Variant ofnyjë.
nen m (pluralnenë)
- numbered subdivision of a law:paragraph,article,section (of a statute);
- clause (of a contract/statute)
- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1],1980
FromVulgar Latin*ninnus.
nen m (pluralnens,femininenena)
- boy, malechild
- Synonym:nano
nen
- ceiling
nen
- (Brabant)Alternative form ofne
See usage notes atne.
nen
- Nonstandard form of'n.
FromFrenchnez(“nose”).
nen
- nose
nen
- Rōmaji transcription ofねん
nen
- some
nen
- Nonstandard spelling ofnèn.
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Probably shortened fromOld Saxonnihen(“not one”).
nên
- no,none; used and inflected in the same way as the articleên.
- 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 hebbenene̅ minſche̅ ny gheſeen noch ghehort de iuw ye watgudes na ſecht heft.
- You are the vilest and greatest tyrant that one might find in all the world, and I havenot seen nor heardone human, that has ever said a good thing about you.
FromLatinnōn(“not”), with the-n surviving intervocalically.
nen
- (before vowels)Alternative form ofne(“not”)
c.1150, Turoldus,La Chanson de Roland[2], lines7–9:Li reis Marsilie la tient, ki Deunen aimet; / Mahumet sert e Apollin recleimet: / Nes poet guarder que mals ne l'i ateignet.- The king Marsile rules it [Zaragoza], [he] whodoesn'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.
Blend ofne(“not”) +ēn(“one”). Akin toOld Englishnān.
nēn
- no,notone
nēn
- none,no-one,nobody
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009)An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company,→ISBN
Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]FromLatinnec.
nen
- not even(introduces an emphatic negation or exclusion)
- 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
- nor(introduces each except the first term of a series, indicating that none of them is true)
- Porend a ſant eſcritura que non mentenen erra nos conta un gn̈ miragre que fez en Engra terra. A uirgen ſanta maria.
- However, the Holy Scripture, which doesn’t lienor err, tells of a great miracle that Virgin Holy Mary worked in England.
By surface analysis, a contraction ofne +en.
nēn
- no,notone
nen
- no
- 9th c.Heliand, verse 1522-1523
...queđe iā, gef it sī, [geha] thes thār wār is, queđenēn, af it nis, [lāta] im genōg an thiu;...- ...say yes, if it be, confess of that where the truth is, sayno, if it is not, let enough (for) him in that;...
Köbler, Gerhard,Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)
- IPA(key): /ˈnen/[ˈnẽn]
- Rhymes:-en
- Syllabification:nen
nen
- Obsolete form ofni(“neither, nor”).
FromEnglishname.
nen
- name
nen
- without
nen f (pluralnennauornennoedd,not mutable)
- heaven
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “nen”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
