different between nag vs prester

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?næ?/
• (North American also) IPA^(key): /ne??/, IPA^(key): /n??/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English nagge, cognate with Dutch negge.

Noun

nag (plural nags)

1. A small horse; a pony.
3. An old, useless horse.

   Synonyms: (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) aver, dobbin, hack, jade, plug
4. (obsolete, derogatory) A paramour.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. x. 11:

     Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt – Whom leprosy o'ertake!

Coordinate terms

• (old useless horse): bum (racing)

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from a North Germanic source; compare Swedish nagga (“to gnaw, grumble”), Danish nage, Icelandic nagga (“to complain”).

Verb

nag (third-person singular simple present nags, present participle nagging, simple past and past participle nagged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.

Anyone would think that I nagged at you, Amanda! (From Amanda! by Robin Klein)

1. To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.

   The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.

2. To bother or disturb persistently in any way.

   a nagging pain in his left knee

   a nagging north wind

Synonyms

• (continually remind or complain): ride
• (bother with thoughts or memories): haunt
• (persistently bother or annoy): worry

Derived terms

• nag screen
• nagware

Related terms

• gnaw

Translations

Noun

nag (plural nags)

1. Someone or something that nags.
2. A repeated complaint or reminder.
3. A persistent, bothersome thought or worry

Synonyms

• (person who nags): See Thesaurus:shrew

Derived terms

• nagless

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

nag

1. Misspelling of knack.

References

• nag at OneLook Dictionary Search
• nag in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• AGN, ANG, GAN, GNA, GaN, Gan, NGA, gan

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch nacht (“night”), from Middle Dutch nacht, from Old Dutch naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nók?ts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?/

Noun

nag (plural nagte)

1. The period between sunset and sunrise, when the sky is dark; night.
2. (countable) darkness.

Colán

Noun

nag

1. moon

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?
• Rhymes: -a??

Noun

nag n (singular definite naget, not used in plural form)

1. grudge

Derived terms

• bære nag

Verb

nag

1. imperative of nage

Gaikundi

Noun

nag

1. sago

Further reading

• Gaikundi-Ontena Organised Phonology Data (2011)

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

nag

1. singular imperative of nagen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of nagen

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nag?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nog?ós (“naked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nâ??/

Adjective

n?g (definite n?g?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. naked

Declension

Synonyms

• g?l, g?

Derived terms

• nág?st

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nag?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nog?ós (“naked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ná?k/

Adjective

n?g (not comparable)

1. naked

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• gòl (more formal)

Derived terms

• nágost

Further reading

• “nag”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nek?e, a combination of Proto-Indo-European *ne (negative particle) and *-k?e (“and”); compare Latin neque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?/

Particle

nag

1. not (in answers and tag questions)

Usage notes

Used before a vowel, but not when that vowel has resulted from the soft mutation of g. Thus na + gallan becomes na allan, not *nag allan.

Alternative forms

• na (used before a consonant)

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na???/

Noun

nag

1. rain

Derived terms

• los nag

Wolof

Noun

nag (definite form nag wi)

1. cow, cattle

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *na?k? (“otter”). Cognate with Thai ??? (nâak), Ahom ???????????? (nak).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /na?k?/
• Tone numbers: nag⁸
• Hyphenation: nag

Noun

nag (Sawndip forms ???? or ? or ???? or ???? or ?, old orthography nag)

1. otter

   Synonym: duznag

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French prestre. See priest.

Noun

prester (plural presters)

1. (obsolete) A priest or presbyter.

Derived terms

• Prester John

Etymology 2

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ??????? (pr?st?r, “hurricane or waterspout attended with lightning; (in plural) veins of the neck when swollen by anger”).

Noun

prester (plural presters)

1. A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire.
2. One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement.

Anagrams

• represt, terpers

French

Verb

prester

1. (Belgium, transitive) to work (a certain amount of time), to provide a service

   J'ai presté cinq heures.

Derived terms

• prestation

Further reading

• “prester” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Alternative forms

• preter

Etymology

From Old French prester.

Verb

prester

1. to lend; to loan

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: prêter

Middle Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse prestr m, From Old English pr?ost. Cognate with Old Swedish præster and Icelandic prestur.

Noun

prester m

1. priest

Descendants

References

• Alieva, Dinara. (2013) Adnominale genitivskonstruksjoner i mellomnorsk.
• Dokumentasjonsprosjektet, Dataene er fra Diplomatarium Norvegicum bind I-XXI.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

prester m

1. indefinite plural of prest

Old French

Etymology

From Latin praest?re, present active infinitive of praest?.

Verb

prester

1. to borrow
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Tant que je puisse armes trover
     Ou a loiier ou a prester.

     As long as I can find arms

     Either to hire, or to borrow.

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Middle French: prester, preter
  • French: prêter