ner

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See also: NER, nêr, Nêr, 'ner, and -ner-

English

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Etymology

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Formed by onomatopoeia. The extended form is neener.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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ner

  1. (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

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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

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Anagrams

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German

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Article

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ner

  1. (colloquial) Contraction of einer (a, an).

Messapic

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr. Closely related to Albanian njer.

Noun

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ner

  1. man

Norwegian Bokmål

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Adverb

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ner

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by ned

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Adverb

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ner

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of ned

Derived terms

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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ner m (genitive neir, nominative plural neir)

  1. (poetic) boar

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ner nerL neirL
Vocative neir nerL neuruH
Accusative nerN nerL neuruH
Genitive neirL ner nerN
Dative neurL neraib neraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ner
also nner after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
ner
pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nero-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 289
  2. ^ Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz (2015) “Flowing and stagnant water in Indo-European”, in Linguistica Brunensia[1], volume 63, pages 7–19

Further reading

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Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈnɛr/
  • Rhymes: -ɛr
  • Syllabification: ner

Noun

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ner f

  1. genitive plural of nera

Romansch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin nigrum.

Adjective

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ner m (feminine singular nera, masculine plural ners, feminine plural neras)

  1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) black

Antonyms

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  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter) alv
  • (Vallader) alb

Swedish

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Alternative forms

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  • ned (more formal)
  • neder (archaic except in some compounds)

Etymology

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A contraction of earlier neder, from Old Norse niðr, from Proto-Germanic *niþer, from Proto-Indo-European *niter.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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ner (not comparable)

  1. (somewhat informal) down; in a direction downwards
    Antonym: upp
  2. (somewhat informal) down; off (with various verbs to denote something which is turned off or shut down)

Usage notes

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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

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  • nere (down, as a location)

References

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Anagrams

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Turkmen

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Other scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Arabic نر

Etymology

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From Persian نر (nar).

Adjective

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ner

  1. male
    Synonym: erkek

Noun

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ner (definite accusative neri, plural nerler)

  1. 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.

Declension

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Alternative forms

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