ner

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

English

Etymology

Formed by onomatopoeia. The extended form is neener.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɜː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː

Interjection

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

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

an interjection

• Finnish: lälläs lää
• French: nananère (fr), nananananère, na (fr)

Anagrams

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

German

Alternative forms

• 'ner

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɐ/

Article

ner

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

Messapic

Etymology

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

Noun

ner

1. man

Norwegian Bokmål

Adverb

ner

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by ned

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adverb

ner

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of ned

Derived terms

• neri
• Nigard (a common toponym)

Old Irish

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Celtic *neros (“hero”) (compare Middle Welsh ner (“chief, hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr (“man, male”).

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. 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)

1. (poetic) boar

Inflection

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

• cullach
• fithend
• torc

Mutation

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.

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

1. genitive plural of nera

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin nigrum.

Adjective

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

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) black

Antonyms

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

Swedish

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neːr/

• Audio:

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Adverb

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

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

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

Anagrams

• ren

Turkmen

Other scripts
Latin	‍
Cyrillic	‍
Arabic	نر

Etymology

From Persian نر (nar).

Adjective

ner

1. male

   Synonym: erkek

Noun

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

Declension of ner

	singular	plural
nominative	ner	nerler
accusative	neri	nerleri
genitive	neriň	nerleriň
dative	nere	nerlere
locative	nerde	nerlerde
ablative	nerden	nerlerden

Alternative forms

• iner