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Webster 1913 Edition
Ner
Definition 2024
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English
Interjection
ner
- (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!
Translations
an interjection
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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".
Anagrams
German
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɐ/
Article
ner
- (colloquial) Contraction of einer (“a, an”).
Old Irish
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Celtic *nero- (“hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr. Cognate with Middle Welsh ner (“chief, hero”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n͈ʲer/
Noun
ner m (genitive neir, nominative plural neir)
- (poetic) boar
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Synonyms
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
ner also nner after a proclitic |
ner pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/ |
ner also nner after a proclitic |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- “ner” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
Romansch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin nigrum, accusative of niger.
Adjective
ner m (feminine singular nera, masculine plural ners, feminine plural neras)
Antonyms
Swedish
Etymology
A contraction of earlier neder, from Old Norse niðr, from Proto-Germanic *niþer, from Proto-Indo-European *niter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /neːr/
Alternative forms
Adverb
ner (not comparable)
- down; in a direction downwards
- down; off (with various verbs to denote something which is turned off or shut down)