neer

• near, neir

From Middle English neere, nere, from Old English *nēora, from Proto-Germanic *neurô, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós.

Cognate with Dutch nier (“kidney”), Low German nere (“kidney”), German Niere (“kidney”), Swedish njure (“kidney”), Icelandic nýru (“kidney”), Latin nefrones, nefrendes, nebrundines (“testicles”), Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney, testicle”).

neer (plural neers)

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

• “neer” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

• Rene, erne, reen

• neder

Contraction of neder.

• IPA^(key): /neːr/, [nɪːr]

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

neer

1. down, downwards

• op

• Jersey Dutch: nêr
• Negerhollands: neer

• eren

From a Germanic language, compare German Niere, Dutch nier.

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

1. (anatomy) kidney

neer

1. Alternative form of neere

neer

1. Alternative form of near
   • 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

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

     There is no fear of them to fall into a dry furrow or trench.

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 111