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English

Etymology

Perhaps from French nègre, from Spanish negro; or perhaps a variant of nigger.

Noun

neger (plural negers)

1. (rare) Synonym of nigger [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1700, ‘The Saint Turn'd Sinner’ (ballad):

     The Parson still more eager, / Than lustful Turk or Neger, / Took up her lower Garment, / And said there was no harm in't, / According to the Text.

Anagrams

• Egner, Geren, Green, Green., genre, green, regen

Danish

Etymology

From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ne?j?]

Noun

neger c (singular definite negeren, plural indefinite negre)

1. (derogatory, now offensive) a dark-skinned person, especially a person of, or primarily of, Negro descent
2. a ghostwriter

Declension

or

Usage notes

The term neger is not quite as offensive as English nigger, but is now generally considered offensive by most people; in its place, the term sort (“black”) is preferred.

Synonyms

• (dark-skinned, derogatory): nigger, abekat
• (dark-skinned, neutral): sort, farvet, afrikaner, mørkhudet (“dark skinned”)
• (ghostwriter): ghostwriter

Further reading

• neger on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

From earlier negro (“black person”) or from French nègre (“black person”), from Spanish negro (“black person”), from Latin niger (“black”), of uncertain origin but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nók?ts (“night”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ne?.??r/
• Hyphenation: ne?ger
• Rhymes: -e???r

Noun

neger m (plural negers, diminutive negertje n, feminine negerin)

1. (colloquial, possibly offensive) a black person, a Negro (male or of unspecified gender)

Usage notes

• For many speakers in Belgium and the Netherlands it is a neutral albeit mainly colloquial way to refer to someone with a dark skin colour. Historically, the word was also used in formal registers, including in newspapers and literary works, but such use has become rare by the early 21st century.
• In Suriname, the word is a derogatory term, except when used in the compounds bosneger and stadsneger.
• In the Benelux, since about 2010, neger is increasingly considered to be hurtful, condescending and/or discriminatory, especially by black people, due to the offensiveness of the etymologically related English nigger and Negro.
• There is evidence that at least some black speakers have reappropriated the word.
• The synonym zwarte or zwarte persoon/man/vrouw can be used as a neutral alternative in all geographies and circumstances. There is also some use of the neologisms Afro-Nederlander, Afro-Belg and Afro-Vlaming, which are neutral alternatives in all circumstances, but can only be used for respectively Dutch people, Belgians and Flemings with African roots.

Synonyms

• zwarte

Derived terms

• bosneger
• dobberneger
• excuusneger
• negeren
• negerin
• negerslaaf
• negerstam
• negerzoen
• nepneger
• stadsneger

Related terms

• negroïde

Descendants

• Afrikaans: neger

References

Anagrams

• enger
• genre
• regen

German

Adjective

neger

1. (Austria, colloquial, dated, possibly offensive) broke, bankrupt

See also

• Neger
• Negerant

Latin

Verb

neger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of neg?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

Noun

neger m (definite singular negeren, indefinite plural negere or negre or negrer, definite plural negerne or negrene)

1. a Negro (sometimes derogatory and offensive)

References

• “neger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

Noun

neger m (definite singular negeren, indefinite plural negrar, definite plural negrane)

1. a Negro (sometimes derogatory and offensive)

References

• “neger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

Noun

neger c

1. (derogatory, now offensive) a negro, a black person

Declension

Usage notes

• The word, potentially having derogatory connotations, has been avoided since the 1960s, primarily in favor of svart (“black”) and afrikan (“African”).
• The pluralization with -ar, although attested as early as 1756, less common and omitted from several dictionaries.

Synonyms

• blåman
• svarting

Derived terms

• negerboll
• negerkyss
• negerslav
• blåneger

References

Anagrams

• gener, genre, green

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?d??(?)/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French léger, assumed to be from Latin leviarius, from levis (“light in weight”). See levity.

Adjective

leger (comparative more leger, superlative most leger)

1. (obsolete) Light; slender, slim; trivial.
   • 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil

     a leger Evil

Etymology 2

A variant of ledger.

Adjective

leger (comparative more leger, superlative most leger)

1. Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.

Noun

leger (plural legers)

1. An ambassador or minister resident at a court or seat of government; a leiger or lieger.

   • Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome

2. (obsolete) Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
3. (obsolete) Alternative form of ledger (“book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records”)

Verb

leger (third-person singular simple present legers, present participle legering, simple past and past participle legered)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, fishing) Alternative form of ledger (“to use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing; to engage in bottom fishing”)

Anagrams

• regle

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?.??r/
• Hyphenation: le?ger
• Rhymes: -e???r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch leger, from Proto-West Germanic *legr, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *legr?.

Noun

leger n (plural legers, diminutive legertje n)

1. army, armed forces

2. form (habitation of a hare)
3. (archaic) bed, crib
4. (figuratively) mass, multitude
5. Short for dijkleger.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: leër
• ? English: leaguer

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

leger

1. Comparative form of leeg

Verb

leger

1. first-person singular present indicative of legeren
2. imperative of legeren

Anagrams

• geler, regel

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French léger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??????/, /le??e???/
• Hyphenation: le?ger

Adjective

leger (comparative legerer, superlative am legersten)

1. casual, informal
2. (of clothing) dressed down

Declension

Further reading

• “leger” in Duden online
• “leger” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch legger (“ledger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???r/
• Hyphenation: lè?gêr

Noun

lègêr (first-person possessive legerku, second-person possessive legermu, third-person possessive legernya)

1. (education) a ledger, the marking register.

Further reading

• “leger” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??er/

Verb

leger

1. to read

Conjugation

Latin

Verb

l?ger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of l?g?

Middle English

Noun

leger

1. Alternative form of lygger

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

leger m

1. indefinite plural of lege

Verb

leger

1. present of lege

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

leger f

1. indefinite plural of lege

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *legr?, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?-. Cognate with Old Frisian leger, Old Saxon legar, Dutch leger (“bed, camp, army”), Old High German legar (German Lager (“camp”)), Old Norse legr (Danish lejr, Swedish läger (“bed”)), Gothic ???????????????????? (ligrs). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ????? (lékhos), Latin lectus (“bed”), Proto-Celtic *leg- (Old Irish lige, Irish luighe), Proto-Slavic *ležati (Russian ??????? (ležát?)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le.jer/

Noun

le?er n

1. the state or action of lying, lying down, or lying ill

2. resting-place; couch, bed
3. deathbed, grave

Declension

Related terms

Descendants

• Middle English: leir, leire, lair, lare
  • English: lair
  • Scots: lair, lear, layer, lare

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin leg?, legere.

Verb

leger

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Vallader) to read

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• liger (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• ler (Puter)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

leger m (feminine singular legra, masculine plural legers, feminine plural legras)

1. (Sursilvan) merry, happy

   Synonym: allegher

Alternative forms

• legher (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Swedish

Adjective

leger (comparative legerare, superlative legerast)

1. Alternative form of legär

Inflection

Anagrams

• regel