Given name · Burmese
နေ
“sun; day”
နေ (ne) is a unisex given name from Proto-Lolo-Burmese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Burmese.
BurmeseWritten in Myanmar script. In English: Ne.
Meaning & origin
What it means
နေ goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku-ni(k), meaning “sun; day.”
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Where it comes from
နေ comes from Proto-Lolo-Burmese, and ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔnəj¹/³, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku-ni(k) (“sun; day”).
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နေ’s family of names
In Burmese usage, နေ shares a linguistic root with the Tibetan form ཉི་མ. In Burmese usage, နေ can be written in the Roman alphabet as NE.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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