neru

Corsican

Alternative forms

Etymology

From older negru, from Latin nigrum. Cf. Italian nero, negro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɛru/
  • Hyphenation: ne‧ru
  • Rhymes: -ɛru

Adjective

neru (feminine nera, masculine plural neri, feminine plural nere)

  1. black

Noun

neru m (plural neri)

  1. black (color)
  2. black person

References

  • Jacques Fusina (1999), Parlons Corse, Editions L'Harmattan, →ISBN, page 52
  • “neru, negru” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Japanese

Romanization

neru

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ねる
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ネル

Yilan Creole

Etymology

From Japanese 寝る (neru, “to sleep”). Compare Atayal abi (“to sleep; to stay”).

Verb

neru

  1. to sleep
  2. to stay

References

  • Chien, Yuehchen (2015), “The lexical system of Yilan Creole”, in Elizabeth Zeitoun, Stacy F. Teng, Joy J. Wu, editors, New Advances in Formosan Linguistics‎[1] (in Yilan Creole), Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, pages 513–532
  • 真田信治 [Shinji Sanada] (2015), “宜蘭クレオールにおけるsound substitutionについて [On the sound substitution of Yilan Creole]”, in 奈良大学紀要 [Memoirs of Nara University]‎[2] (in Japanese), number 43
  • Chien Yuehchen (2023), “Yilan Creole”, in Handbook of Formosan Languages Online: The Indigenous Languages of Taiwan‎[3], number 44, →ISSN
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