ner
Translingual
Symbol
ner
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Yahadian terms
English
Etymology
Formed by onomatopoeia. The extended form is neener.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɜː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː
Interjection
ner
- (slang, childish) An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.
- You're wrong, so ner!
- I don't care what you think, so ner!
- I've got more sweets than you. Ner ner ner ner ner!
Derived terms
- ner ner ner ner ner
- Emphatic form of ner — pronounced /nɜː nɜː nə nɜː nɜː/ and sung or spoken with the rhythm: crotchet, dotted quaver, semiquaver, crotchet, crotchet. Spelling is not canonical; alternatives are "ner ner na ner ner" or "ner ner ne ner ner".
Translations
Anagrams
German
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɐ/
Article
ner
- (colloquial) contraction of einer (“a, an”)
Messapic
Noun
ner
- romanization of 𐌍𐌄𐌓
Norwegian Bokmål
Adverb
ner
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by ned
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adverb
ner
- (dialectal) alternative form of ned
Derived terms
- neri
- Nigard (a common toponym)
Old English
Adjective
nēr
- comparative degree of nēah
Old Irish
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Celtic *neros (“hero”) (compare Middle Welsh ner (“chief, hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr (“man, male”).[1]
Witczak rejects this explanation, deriving the word instead from a Proto-Celtic *eɸros (“boar”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epros (“boar”) (Old English eofor, Latin aper, Old Church Slavonic вепрь (veprĭ)), with the n- arising from rebracketing of the demonstrative-final n in accusative *ton eɸron, i.e. overgeneralisation of the nasal mutation.[2] However, Witczak’s explanation ignores the fact that the cluster *‑ɸr- became *‑br- in Proto-Celtic, meaning that a **(n)eɸros should become **(n)ebros and Old Irish **(n)ebar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [n͈ʲer]
Noun
ner m (genitive neir, nominative plural neir)
- (poetic) boar
Inflection
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | ner | nerL | neirL |
vocative | neir | nerL | neuruH |
accusative | nerN | nerL | neuruH |
genitive | neirL | ner | nerN |
dative | neurL | neraib | neraib |
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Synonyms
Mutation
radical | lenition | nasalization |
---|---|---|
ner also nner in h-prothesis environments |
ner pronounced with /nʲ-/ |
ner also nner |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nero-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 289
- ^ Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz (2015) “Flowing and stagnant water in Indo-European”, in Linguistica Brunensia[1], volume 63, pages 7–19
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ner”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnɛr/
- Rhymes: -ɛr
- Syllabification: ner
Noun
ner f
- genitive plural of nera
Romansch
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adjective
ner m (feminine singular nera, masculine plural ners, feminine plural neras)
Antonyms
Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
A contraction of earlier neder, from Old Norse niðr, from Proto-Germanic *niþer, from Proto-Indo-European *niter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /neːr/
Audio: (file)
Adverb
ner (not comparable)
- (somewhat informal) down; in a direction downwards
- Antonym: upp
- (somewhat informal) down; off (with various verbs to denote something which is turned off or shut down)
Usage notes
The forms ned and ner are often, but not always, interchangeable. The form ned is more formal and is especially found in compounds of more formal nature, whereas ner is more common as a word on its own. For instance the formal word nedlägga (“to discontinue, shut down”) vs. its informal equivalent lägga ner. Some compounds can use either form, e.g. nedladdning (“download”) (more formal) or nerladdning (less formal). Some compounds only use ned, e.g. nedlåtande (“condescending”).
In a few compounds, the otherwise archaic form neder is used, e.g. nederbörd (“precipitation”) or nedervåning (“ground floor”).
See also
- nere (“down, as a location”)
References
Anagrams
Turkmen
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Latin | |
Cyrillic | |
Arabic | نر |
Etymology
Adjective
ner
Noun
ner (definite accusative neri, plural nerler)
- male camel
- a. 1807, Magtymguly, “Türkmeniň”, in Nurcan Öznal Güder, editor, Güldeste, Istanbul: Salon Yayınları, published 2016, →ISBN, page 24:
- حق سیلامش باردور اونیڭ سایهسی
چیرفنینشار چولنده نری مایهسی
رنگبهرنگ گل آچار یاشیل یایلاسی
غرق بولمیش ریحانه چولی ترکمنیڭ- Hak sylamyş bardyr onuň saýasy,
Çyrpynşar çölünde neri, maýasy,
Reň-be-reň gül açar ýaşyl ýaýlasy,
Gark bolmuş reýhana çöli türkmeniň. - The Almighty acclaimed this land. His shadow is with us.
A sandstorm in its desert, male camel and female,
Colour upon colour of flowers flourish on the green plains,
The Turkmen desert discoasts in fragrance.
- Hak sylamyş bardyr onuň saýasy,
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | ner | nerler |
accusative | neri | nerleri |
genitive | neriň | nerleriň |
dative | nere | nerlere |
locative | nerde | nerlerde |
ablative | nerden | nerlerden |
Alternative forms
Further reading
- “ner” in Enedilim.com