neger

Perhaps from French nègre, from Spanish negro; or perhaps a variant of nigger.

neger (plural negers)

1. (rare) Synonym of nigger [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1700 ‘The Saint Turn'd Sinner’ (ballad):

     The Parson still more eager, / Than lustful Turk or Neger, / Took up her lower Garment, / And said there was no harm in't, / According to the Text.

• Egner, Geren, Green, Green., genre, green, regen

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From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈneːjɐ]

neger c (singular definite negeren, plural indefinite negre)

1. (derogatory, now offensive) a dark-skinned person, especially a person of, or primarily of, Negro descent
2. a ghostwriter

or

The term neger is not quite as offensive as English nigger, but is now generally considered offensive by most people; in its place, the term sort (“black”) is preferred.

• (dark-skinned, derogatory): nigger, abekat
• (dark-skinned, neutral): sort, farvet, afrikaner, mørkhudet (“dark skinned”)
• (ghostwriter): ghostwriter

• neger on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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From earlier negro (“black person”) or from French nègre (“black person”), from Spanish negro (“black person”), from Latin niger (“black”), of uncertain origin but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈneː.ɣər/

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• Hyphenation: ne‧ger
• Rhymes: -eːɣər

neger m (plural negers, diminutive negertje n, feminine negerin)

1. (colloquial, possibly offensive) a black person, a Negro (male or of unspecified gender)

• For many speakers in Belgium and the Netherlands it is a neutral albeit mainly colloquial way to refer to someone with a dark skin colour. Historically, the word was also used in formal registers, including in newspapers and literary works, but such use has become rare by the early 21st century.
• In Suriname, the word is a derogatory term, except when used in the compounds bosneger and stadsneger.^[1]
• In the Benelux, since about 2010, neger is increasingly considered to be hurtful, condescending and/or discriminatory, especially by black people, due to the offensiveness of the etymologically related English nigger and Negro.^[2][3][4]
• There is evidence that at least some black speakers have reappropriated the word.^[5]
• The synonyms zwarte, zwarte persoon/man/vrouw, or persoon/man/vrouw met Afrikaanse roots^[6] can be used as neutral alternatives in all geographies and circumstances. There is also some use of the neologistic prefix Afro-, which is used similarly to English African-. It can be added as a prefix to any nationality or ethnicity to indicate African roots; for example: Afro-Nederlander (African-Dutchman), Afro-Belg (African-Belgian) and Afro-Vlaming (African-Fleming). These are neutral alternatives in all circumstances.

• zwarte

• bosneger
• dobberneger
• excuusneger
• negeren
• negerin
• negerslaaf
• negerstam
• negerzoen
• nepneger
• stadsneger

• negroïde

• Afrikaans: neger
• Negerhollands: neeger

• enger
• genre
• regen

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neger

1. (Austria, colloquial, dated, possibly offensive) broke, bankrupt

• Neger
• Negerant

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(deprecated template usage) neger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of negō

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From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

neger m (definite singular negeren, indefinite plural negere or negre or negrer, definite plural negerne or negrene)

1. a Negro (sometimes derogatory and offensive)

• “neger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

neger m (definite singular negeren, indefinite plural negrar, definite plural negrane)

1. a Negro (sometimes derogatory and offensive)

• “neger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

neger c

1. (derogatory, now offensive) a negro, a black person

• The word, potentially having derogatory connotations, has been avoided since the 1960s, primarily in favor of svart (“black”) and afrikan (“African”).
• The pluralization with -ar, although attested as early as 1756,^[1] less common and omitted from several dictionaries.

• blåman
• svarting

• negerboll
• negerkyss
• negerslav
• blåneger

• gener, genre, green