neru

Corsican

U culore neru.

Alternative forms

• negru (archaic)

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