Nene vs Neve - What's the difference?
nene | neve |
The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis , now the state bird of Hawaii.
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 37:
(rare, or, obsolete) Nephew.
* 1920 , Wilhelm Robert Richard Pinger, Laurence Sterne and Goethe :
(rare, or, obsolete) A male cousin.
* 1988 , Michael Tepper, New World immigrants :
(rare, or, obsolete) A grandson.
(rare) A spendthrift.
As nouns the difference between nene and neve
is that nene is while neve is .nene
English
(wikipedia nene)Noun
(en noun)- The nene is a handsome bird that almost became extinct in the wild but was reintroduced successfully from ones bred in captivity.
Synonyms
* Hawaiian goose * ----neve
English
Noun
(en noun)- Iwein considers it his right and duty to avenge his neve , and is much exercised when Artûs proposes to go to the well with his full strength, for he apprehends that the king will give the distinction of the combat to his sister's son Gâwein.
- Still another passenger on the same ship was Gysbert Philips from Velthuysen, 24 years old, a "neve " ( nephew or cousin) of Cornelia Wynkoop.