different between nog vs nor

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

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

Noun

nog (plural nogs)

1. A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
2. One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
3. (shipbuilding) A treenail to fasten the shores.

Verb

nog (third-person singular simple present nogs, present participle nogging, simple past and past participle nogged)

1. (transitive) to fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.
2. (transitive, shipbuilding) to fasten, as shores, with treenails.

Etymology 2

Noun

nog (plural nogs)

1. Short for noggin.

Etymology 3

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

Noun

nog (countable and uncountable, plural nogs)

1. Abbreviation of eggnog.
2. (obsolete) A kind of strong ale.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 4

Shortened from nig-nog.

Noun

nog (plural nogs)

1. (offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A dark-skinned person; nig-nog.
2. (Australia, dated, ethnic slur) A Vietnamese person.

Anagrams

• -gon, NGO, Ngo, Ong, gon, gon', gon-

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch nog, from Middle Dutch noch, from Old Dutch noch (“until now, still”), from Proto-Germanic *nuh (“still”, literally “now too”), from Proto-Indo-European *nu (“now”) + *-k?e- (“and, also”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??/

Adverb

nog

1. still
2. (with negation) yet

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch noch, from Old Dutch noch (“until now, still”), from Proto-Germanic *nuh (“still”, literally “now too”), from Proto-Indo-European *nu (“now”) + *-k?e- (“and, also”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?x/
• Rhymes: -?x
• Homophone: noch

Adverb

nog

1. still, as before

2. (in negative phrases) yet

3. (with an amount) more, in addition

4. (with a time) to indicate the time is soon, soon after another event or within the same timespan ? as early as, already

   1862, Verslag van den staat der hooge-, middelbare en lagere scholen in het Koningkrijk der Nederlanden over 1859–1860, Algemeene Lands-Drukkerij, page 62:

   Zij trad in geene dezer gemeenten nog in 1859 in werking

   In none of these municipalities [the regulation] came in force as early as 1859

   1987, André Haakmat, De revolutie uitgegleden, Jan Mets, page 74:

   Toen bleek dat de Nederlandse ambassade onze zorgen deelde, werd besloten de minister met zijn delegatie nog de volgende dag te laten vertrekken.

   When it turned out that the Dutch embassy shared our concerns, it was decided to let the minister with his delegation leave the very next day.

   1996, Centraal Economisch Plan, Centraal Planbureau, page 12:

   Naar verwachting zal de groei van de Westeuropese economie zich nog dit jaar herstellen. Maar het is niet zeker of dit nog in de eerste jaarhelft zal aanvangen.

   It's expected that growth of the Western European economy will already recover this year. But it isn't certain if this will already start in the first half of the year.
   Note: nog is used much more often in Dutch than its English equivalents; it has been translated here for the sake of elucidation, but one might choose to not translate it at all in this case.

   2013, P.J. Risseeuw, Vrijheid en Brood, VBK Media:

   Nog de volgende dag reizen zij af.

   They depart the very next day.

5. (with a time) to indicate the time is recent or just before another event ? as recently as, as late as, just

   1967, Kampioen, volume 82, issue 5, ANWB, page 307:

   De planoloog ir. G. C. Lange, directeur van de Provinciale Planologische Dienst van Zuid-Holland, heeft nog vorig jaar met klem betoogd dat Nederland de boot zal missen wanneer er geen Westerscheldetunnel (of brug) ligt als de Kanaaltunnel wordt opgesteld.

   The urban and country planner eng. G. C. Lange, director of the Provincial Planning Service of South Holland, has just last year strongly expressed the view that the Netherlands will miss the boat when there is no Western Scheldt Tunnel (or bridge) when the Channel Tunnel is opened to the public.

   2008, Alex van Heezik, Strijd om de Rivieren, Van Heezik Beleidsresearch in cooperation with Directoraat-Generaal Rijkswaterstaat/Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat, page 127:

   Door de nieuwe kanalisatietechnieken was het nu ook mogelijk om een grillige rivier als de Maas ‘normaal te maken’ of, zoals dit door het hoofd van de rivierendienst van Rijkswaterstaat, ingenieur F.L. Schlingemann, nog in 1938 werd geformuleerd: door “groote werken aan 's menschen wil te onderwerpen”.

   Through the new canalisation techniques it became possible to ‘normalise’ even a fickle river like the Meuse, or, like the head of the river service of Public Works and Water Management, engineer F.L. Schlingemann, put it as recently as 1938: through “big works subjugate it to man's will”.

   2010, Cornelis Dekker & Roland Baetens, Geld in het Water, Verloren, page 126:

   De Hontedijk, die Mare en Rilland beschermd had en nog in de winter van 1533 op 1534 door Antwerpen was versterkt, lag er al in 1535 verloren bij.

   The Hontedike, that had protected Mare en Rilland and had just been reinforced by Antwerp in the winter of 1533 and 1534, was already abandoned in 1535.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: nog

Slovene

Noun

nog

1. genitive dual/plural of noga

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse nóg, nógr, gnógr, from Proto-Germanic *gan?gaz. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?eh?nó?e (“he has reached, attained”), perfective of *h?ne?- (“to reach”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

nog (not comparable)

1. enough, sufficient

   Har vi nog med mat för picknicken?

   Do we have enough food for the picnic?

2. probably

   Det har vi nog.

   We probably do (have that).

Anagrams

• -gon

Tapachultec

Noun

nog

1. water

Usage notes

• This is the form Lehmann says is given in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists; the form given in Johnston's vocabulary is nuc.

References

• Walter Lehmann, Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915), Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.

Volapük

Adverb

nog

1. (with negation) yet

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation): enPR: nô, IPA^(key): /n??/
• (US) enPR: nôr, IPA^(key): /n???/
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Homophone: gnaw (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither.

Conjunction

nor

1. (literary) And not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).
   • Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.

   • 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman

     And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it […]

   • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

     Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.

2. A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true.

3. Used to introduce a further negative statement.

4. (Britain, dialect) Than.

Translations

See also

• neither

Etymology 2

From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or

Noun

nor (plural nors)

1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR

See also

• and
• nand
• or
• xor

Anagrams

• NRO, RON, Ron, orn, ron

Aromanian

Noun

nor

1. Alternative form of norã

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nor/, [nor], [no?]

Etymology 1

Pronoun

nor

1. (interrogative) who

Declension

Etymology 2

From the interrogative pronoun.

Adjective

nor (not comparable)

1. (grammatical term, used as a modifier) (of a verb) intransitive without a dative argument

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nor]

Noun

nor f

1. genitive plural of nora

Dutch

Etymology

Unclear, perhaps onomatopoeic, cf. brommen (“to do time”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?r/
• Hyphenation: nor
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

nor (only as singular, with definite article: de nor)

1. (informal) Jail, prison; imprisonment

   Synonyms: bajes, bak, gevangenis, lik

Norman

Alternative forms

• nord (continental Normandy, Guernsey, Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþr? (“north”), from Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“lower, bottom; to sink, shrivel”).

Noun

nor m (uncountable)

1. (Sark) north

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?r/

Noun

nor f

1. genitive plural of nora

Romanian

Alternative forms

• nour (regional, Moldova)
• noor (regional, Oltenia),
• nuor, nuv?r (regional, Banat)
• nuar (archaic, obsolete)

Etymology

From older nuar, nu?r, from Latin n?bilum, noun use of the neuter of the adjective n?bilus (“cloudy”), from Latin n?b?s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newd?- (“to cover”). Compare Aromanian nior,Spanish nube,Italian nuvola, Friulian nûl, Portuguese nuvem, Catalan núvol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nor]

Noun

nor m (plural nori)

1. cloud

Declension

Derived terms

• (a se) înnora
• noros

Slovene

Etymology

From German Narr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??r/

Adjective

n?r (comparative b?lj n?r, superlative n?jbolj n?r)

1. crazy, insane, mad

Inflection

Derived terms

Further reading

• “nor”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Noun

nor

1. narrow strait

Anagrams

• ron

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish nuora.

Noun

nor

1. string