• near,neir

FromMiddle Englishneere,nere, fromOld English*nēora, fromProto-Germanic*neurô, fromProto-Indo-European*negʷʰrós.

Cognate withDutchnier(“kidney”),Low Germannere(“kidney”),GermanNiere(“kidney”),Swedishnjure(“kidney”),Icelandicnýru(“kidney”),Latinnefrones,nefrendes,nebrundines(“testicles”),Ancient Greekνεφρός(nephrós,“kidney, testicle”).

neer (pluralneers)

1. (Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland)(anatomy)Kidney.

• “neer”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present,→OCLC.

• reen,Rene,erne,Erne

• neder

Contraction ofneder.

• IPA^(key): /neːr/,[nɪːr]

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• Hyphenation:neer
• Rhymes:-eːr
• Homophone:Neer

neer

1. down,downwards

   De appel vielneer van de boom.

   The apple felldown from the tree.

   Ze keekneer naar de straat vanaf haar balkon.

   She lookeddown at the street from her balcony.

   De vogel vloogneer naar zijn nest.

   The bird flewdown to its nest.

• op

• Jersey Dutch:nêr
• Negerhollands:neer

• eren

From aGermanic language, possiblyMiddle Low Germannēre(“kidney”). Ultimately fromProto-Germanic*neurô(“kidney”)

neer (genitive[please provide],partitive[please provide])

1. (anatomy)kidney

neer

1. Alternative form ofneere

neer

1. Alternative form ofnear
   • 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page111:

     Aar'sneer a vear o aam to be drine-vold.

     There isno fear of them to fall into a dry furrow or trench.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page111

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