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Niet

Niet

See also: niet and niet-

German

Noun

Niet n, m ‎(genitive Niets, plural Niete)

  1. rivet

Declension

Neuter declension:

Masculine declension:

Derived terms

  • Niet- und Nagelfest
  • Niethose
  • Nietverbindung

niet

niet

See also: Niet and niet-

Dutch

Adverb

niet

  1. Not, no: used to express negation.
    Niet storen!‎
    Do not disturb!
    Dat is niet waar.‎
    That is not true.
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Etymology 2

Noun

niet f ‎(plural nieten, diminutive nietje n)

  1. A staple.

Verb

niet

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of nieten
  2. imperative of nieten
Usage notes

The word is commonly used in the diminutive form

Derived terms

Anagrams

Norman

Alternative forms

  • nyit (continental Normandy)
  • gniet, gniaette (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French noit, nuit, from Latin nox.

Pronunciation

Noun

niet f ‎(plural niets)

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) night
    • 2006, Peggy Collenette, ‘Célébraïr 25 onnaïes’, P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press 2006, p. 18:
      La Marie et Jimmin dormisirent toute la niet et Jimmin s'éville au matin dauve l'épile à sen naïz.
      Marie and Jimmy slept all night and Jimmy woke up in the morning with the peg on his nose.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch niwet, niet, from Old Dutch *niowiht, niewiht, from nio ‎(“never”) + wiht ‎(“thing, creature”). The former in turn derives from Proto-Germanic *ne ‎(“not”) + *aiw- ‎(“ever”) + *wiht- ‎(“thing”).

It was originally a pronoun meaning "not a thing", and was later used to reinforce a regular negation. The pronomial meaning was lost in Middle Dutch. English not, and its older forms naught and nought, were formed in the same way, but "not" also lost its sense as a pronoun and became a negation adverb as in Dutch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nit/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /ni/ (often, in fast speech)
  • Rhymes: -it

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