ne
/nə/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
2
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Abbreviation of Nebraska: a state of the United States.
name
Initialism of New English.
name
Initialism of New England: a geographic region of the United States.
name
Initialism of New Executable (executable file format used by early 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/2).
adj
Example Sentences
- "For she ne dare doo, but to commande."
- "And whan the good quene herde these pyteous tydynges lytel lacked that the ne dyed for sorowe / wherfore all lamentably the began to complayne her sayenge."
- "This shold haue bene his skuce at the lest / And it ne had bene but good & honest."
- "O so incessaunt thow ad in thy desyre / For so that thow thy mynde now mayst haue / Thow ne caryst what thow dost requyre."
- "For he ne had, nor could increase his line."
- "In geving me to him whom I ne can, ne may, ne ought to love."
Etymology
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 𐌽𐌹 (ni), Latin nē, Sanskrit न (na), Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не (ne), Lithuanian ne, Irish ní.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ne, *ne, *né, nē