niver

• (Mid-Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈnə.vər/, /ˈnɛ̈.vəɹ/, /ˈnɜ.vəɹ/

niver (not comparable)

1. (Mid-Ulster) Alternative form of never.
   • 1837, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. The Second Series, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, chapter SEVEN DIALS, page 149:

     “Niver mind,” replies the opposition expressively, “niver mind; you go home, and, ven you're quite sober, mend your stockings.”

   • 1983, William Forbes Marshall, The Lad:

     An’ niver got half his fill.

• Viner, Irven, Ervin, Rivne, viner, riven, Inver-

From Proto-Brythonic *niβ̃er, from Latin numerus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈniː.vɛr/

niver m (plural niveroù)

1. number, numeral

From Middle Cornish nyver, never, from Proto-Brythonic *niβ̃er, from Latin numerus. Doublet of nomber. Cognate with Breton niver and Welsh nifer.

niver m (plural niverow)

1. number

   Synonyms: nomber, riv

niver

1. third-person singular present indicative/future indicative of nivera
2. second-person singular imperative of nivera

niver m (plural niveres)

1. alternative form of níver

• “niver”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025

• nivver

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪ.vər/, /ˈnɛ.vər/

niver

1. never

niver (nominative plural nivers)

1. university
   • 1937, “‚Johann Martin Schleyer’”, in Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, page 34:

     De 1852 jü 1855 ästudom in niver tö ‚Freiburg im Breisgau’ Godavi, pükavi, filosopi, jenavi e sanavi.

     From 1852 to 1855 he studied theology, philology, philosophy, history and medicine at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau.

Seemingly from Vulgar Latin *nivāre, a verb based on Latin nivem (“snow”, noun).

• IPA^(key): /ni.ve/

niver

1. to snow

• nive