• naer (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /naːr/

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• Hyphenation: naar
• Rhymes: -aːr

From earlier naer, from Middle Dutch nâer, from Old Dutch *nār, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhuriʀ(ō), from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz. Originally the comparative of na, which is in Modern Dutch nader.

Compare also English near, Swedish nära och när, and Danish & Norwegian nær and når.

naar

1. to, towards in time, space, consequence, purpose etc.
2. (dated) according to, in accordance with

   naar het Evangelie van Mattheüs

   according to the gospel of Matthew

• naartoe

• Javindo: naar
• Jersey Dutch: nâr
• Negerhollands: na
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: na (dated)
• Petjo: naar
• Skepi Creole Dutch: na
• → Papiamentu: na

From Middle Dutch naer, nare (“tight, sad”), from Old Dutch *naro (“narrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *naru, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“narrow, tight, constricted”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“turn, bend, twist, constrict”).

Cognate with Low German naar (“ghastly, dismal”), West Frisian near (“narrow”), English narrow; compare also German Narbe (“scar, closed wound”). More at narrow.

naar (comparative naarder, superlative naarst)

1. nasty, scary
2. unpleasant, sickening

Declension of naar
uninflected	naar
inflected	nare
comparative	naarder
positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		naar	naarder	het naarst het naarste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	nare	naardere	naarste
	n. sing.	naar	naarder	naarste
	plural	nare	naardere	naarste
definite		nare	naardere	naarste
partitive		naars	naarders	—

• Afrikaans: naar

• nåår (Goesharde)
• noor (Halligen)
• noar (Wiedingharde)

From Old Frisian *naro, from Proto-West Germanic *naru, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to bend, constrict, turn, twist”).

naar

1. (Föhr-Amrum) narrow

Semai cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : naar     Ordinal : inaar

• nar

naar^[1]

1. two

• duwaaq
• duwè

• inaar
• rimnaar

naar

1. alternative form of near
   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, line 2:

     Fo naar had looke var to be brides,

     Who never had luck to be brides,

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927), “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎^[1], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 131

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