neen
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
neen pl (plural only)
- (archaic, Yorkshire) The eyes.
- 1683, George Meriton, A Yorkshire Dialogue:
- And mar her milk, Ise greet out bath my Neen.
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Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch neen, from Old Dutch nēn (“none, not one”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz, from Proto-Germanic *ne + *ainaz. Cognate with English none, German nein.
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
neen
Usage notes edit
Neen is the stressed form productively used in Flanders in both spoken and written language. It is archaic in both the spoken as well as written language in the Netherlands.
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Luxembourgish edit
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Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
neen
Mambae edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ənəm.
Numeral edit
neen
Narragansett edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Algonquian *niᐧlawa. Compare Ojibwe niin.[1]
Pronoun edit
neèn
- I (first-person singular pronoun)
Usage notes edit
Usually precedes a verb or noun, like keèn but unlike ewò.[2]
References edit
Further reading edit
- Roger Williams (1643) A Key into the Language of America, London: Gregory Dexter, →OCLC, page 2
Saterland Frisian edit
Etymology edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
neen
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Scots edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Numeral edit
neen
- Alternative form of nine
Etymology 2 edit
Pronoun edit
neen
- (Northern Scots and Shetland) Alternative form of nane
Determiner edit
neen
- (Northern Scots and Shetland) Alternative form of nane
Adverb edit
neen
- (Northern Scots and Shetland) Alternative form of nane
Tetum edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ənəm, from Proto-Austronesian *ənəm.
Numeral edit
neen
Yola edit
< 8 | 9 | 10 > |
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Cardinal : neen | ||
Etymology edit
From Middle English nyne, from Old English nigon, from Proto-West Germanic *neun. Cognates include English nine and Scots nine.
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
neen
- nine
- 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 102:
- Neen chickès have hea ee-left vatherless.
- Nine chickens has he left fatherless.
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 59
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