neet

See also: NEET

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.

   It does get dark of a neet when t'mooin in't aat

Anagrams

• -teen, -tene, EENT, teen

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eːt

Noun

neet f (plural neten, diminutive neetje n)

1. nit; egg of a louse

See also

• luis

Anagrams

• eten, teen

Ingrian

Alternative forms

• ne

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈneːt/, [ˈneːd]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈneːt/, [ˈne̝ːd̥]
• Rhymes: -eːt
• Hyphenation: neet

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) [Geography: textbook for Ingrian elementary school third grade (first part)], 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

• niin

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^[1], 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^[2], →ISBN, pages 13-14

Limburgish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neːt/
• Rhymes: -eːt

Adverb

neet (Eupen)

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

Derived terms

• néttmië

Interjection

neet (Eupen)

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

Low German

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch niet.

Adverb

neet

1. alternative form of nich (“not”)

Middle English

Noun

neet

1. alternative form of net (“cattle”)

Scots

Noun

neet (plural neets)

1. nit (egg of a louse)