Definition/Meaning of ne

• English - Adverb: ne (not comparable) (not comparable) Not . c. 1500, Melusine (translation) For she ne dare doo, but to commande. c. 1590, William Fowler, The Works of William Fowler: What happs might chance me I ne k ne we. ne (not comparable) (New Zealand, not comparable) "Isn't that so?" (used in representations of Maori English). 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 6: Then, he…
• English - Conjunction: ne (obsolete) Nor . 1558, Thomas Phaer, The Aeneid (translation): We Moores be not so base of wit, ne yet so blunt of mynd. 1570, John Thynne, The Debate betweene Pride and Lowlines: His hart encreaseth not thereby ne lesseth as edoon these fooles.
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English ne , from Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *né. Cognates include Gothic (ni), Latin nē , Sanskrit न (na), Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не (ne), Lithuanian ne, Irish ní . Etymology 2. From Māori nē .
• English - Pronunciation: IPA: /nə/