From your mouth - sounds like - Nay
nay
neɪ/Submit
adverb
1.
or rather (used to emphasize a more appropriate word than one just used).
"permission to build the superstore will take months, nay years"
synonyms: or rather, and more than that, (and) indeed, and even, in fact, in point of fact, actually, in truth
"it is difficult, nay, impossible, to understand"