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Mostly yes, but the Japanese already had it before the Portuguese came along.
Yeah, I was just thinking there's no way that etymology is true. Ne is part of a whole class of these particles and appears in combinations to form even more specific "response-inviting" markers. A loanword for some traded good I'd believe, but not a grammatical feature like this, especially not because the Portuguese missionaries weren't all that popular in Japan.