ner

Formed by onomatopoeia. The extended form is neener.

• IPA^(key): /nɜː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː

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!

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".

• ren, NRE, -ren, ern, -ern, RNE, Ren, ENR, REN, Ern

• 'ner

• IPA^(key): /nɐ/

ner

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

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

ner

1. man

ner

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by ned

ner

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of ned

• neri
• Nigard (a common toponym)

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.

• IPA^(key): [n͈ʲer]

ner m (genitive neir, nominative plural neir)

1. (poetic) boar

• cullach
• fithend
• torc

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ner”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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

ner f

1. genitive plural of nera

• nair (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
• neir (Surmiran)

From Latin nigrum.

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

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) black

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /neːr/

• Audio:

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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)

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”).

• nere (“down, as a location”)

• ner in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ner in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• ren

From Persian نر (nar).

ner

1. male

   Synonym: erkek

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.

• iner