neet

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English

Etymology 1

Noun

neet (plural neets)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of NEET

Etymology 2

Noun

neet (plural neets)

  1. (Yorkshire, archaic) Alternative form of night

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch nete, from Old Dutch *nita, from Proto-Germanic *hnitō.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -eːt

Noun

neet f (plural neten, diminutive neetje n)

  1. nit; egg of a louse

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Anagrams

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch niet.

Adverb

neet

  1. used to express negation: not

Ingrian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nek, from Proto-Uralic *ne. Cognates include Finnish ne and Estonian need.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

neet

  1. these, those (not bound to a specific location)
    • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:
      Höö kavvaa katsoit niitä ja mitäle meinaisivat keskenää.
      They were looking at these for a long time and discussing something among each other.

Determiner

neet

  1. these, those (not bound to a specific location)

Usage notes

  • Se and neet are anaphoric: That is to say they refer to something previously mentioned (or soon afterwards mentioned) in the conversation. In contrast, too and noo are deictic, and thus refer to physical entities.

Declension

Declension of neet
singular plural
nominative se neet
genitive senen niijen
accusative sen neet
partitive sitä niitä
illative siihe niihe
inessive siin niis
elative siint, siitä niist
allative sille niille
adessive sil niil
ablative silt niilt
translative siks niiks
essive senennä niinnä

Derived terms

See also

Ingrian demonstratives
proximal neutral distal
singular tämä (tää) se too
plural nämät (näät) neet noo

References

  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 99
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 338
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, pages 13-14

Limburgish

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”) + *aiw- (“ever”) + *wihtą (“thing”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

neet (Eupen)

  1. not, non- (negates the meaning of a verb, adjective, or adverb)

Derived terms

Interjection

neet (Eupen)

  1. (tag question) right?; is it?; is it not?

Scots

Noun

neet (plural neets)

  1. nit (egg of a louse)
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