neer

• near, neir

From Middle English neere, nere, from Old English *nēora, from Proto-Germanic *neurô, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós.

Cognate with Dutch nier (“kidney”), Low German nere (“kidney”), German Niere (“kidney”), Swedish njure (“kidney”), Icelandic nýru (“kidney”), Latin nefrones, nefrendes, nebrundines (“testicles”), Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney, testicle”).

neer (plural neers)

1. (Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) (anatomy) Kidney.

• “neer”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

• reen, Rene, erne, Erne

• neder

Contraction of neder.

• IPA^(key): /neːr/, [nɪːr]

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• Hyphenation: neer
• Rhymes: -eːr
• Homophone: Neer

neer

1. down, downwards

   Antonym: op

   Hij legde het boek neer. ― He laid the book down.

   Ze viel doodmoe neer op het bed. ― She fell down on the bed, exhausted.

• Jersey Dutch: nêr
• Negerhollands: neer

• eren

From a Germanic language, possibly Middle Low German nēre (“kidney”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *neurô (“kidney”)

neer (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. (anatomy) kidney

neer

1. alternative form of nere

neer

1. alternative form of near
   • 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 111:

     Aar's neer a vear o aam to be drine-vold.

     There is no fear of them to fall into a dry furrow or trench.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 111