neither

«neither» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: not either; nor — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

not either; nor

part of speech

determiner, pronoun, conjunction, and adverb (also not)

meaning for a pupil

Used to say "not one nor the other"; also used to start a sentence with "not" and "nor" in the old way. tree →

how it differs from today

In the Torah "neither shalt thou" means "you shall not either", which is an old use of "neither" to begin a clause; today we would say "nor" or "you must not".

examples

• Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. (Torah DEU.5.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• I can neither fly nor swim.” (Peter Pan) tree →
• neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause. (Torah EXO.23.3, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

neither

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 690 (Torah 139, tales 551, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 6; ratio 6.0 (Torah alone 25.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.
• Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.
• And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
• neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.
• And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «neither» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.