different between noyer vs boyer

English

Noun

noyer (plural noyers)

1. (obsolete) An annoyer.
   • 1573, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

     The North is a noyer to grass of all suites, / The East a destroyer to herb and all fruits.

Anagrams

• Roney, onery, yeron

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nwa.je/
• Homophones: noyers, noyé, noyés, noyée, noyées, noyai, noyez

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin nuc?rius (“nut tree”) from Classical Latin nux. Compare Spanish noguera, Portuguese nogueira, Catalan noguera, Occitan noguièr. Equivalent to noix +? -ier.

Noun

noyer m (plural noyers)

1. walnut (tree)

Related terms

• noix (walnut, the nut)

Etymology 2

From Old French noier, neier, from Latin nec?re, present active infinitive of nec? (“kill”). The sense of "to drown" can be found in other Romance cognates; compare Italian annegare, Spanish anegar, Romanian îneca.

Verb

noyer

1. (reflexive, literally and figuratively) To drown; to drown oneself

   Elle s'est noyée dans l'océan.

   She drowned in the ocean.

2. (transitive, literally and figuratively) To drown

   J'ai noyé mon chien dans le fleuve.

   I drowned my dog in the river.
3. (transitive, cooking) To water down

   Il faut noyer le vin avec de l'eau.

   You must water down the wine.

Conjugation

This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like employer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the ‘y’ with an ‘i’ before a silent ‘e’.

This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like employer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the ‘y’ with an ‘i’ before a silent ‘e’.

Derived terms

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Dutch boeijer, so called because these vessels were employed for laying the boeijen, or buoys: compare French boyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b???(?)/

Noun

boyer (plural boyers)

1. (nautical) A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.
   • 1651, Walter Raleigh, Observations touching trade and commerce with the Hollander and other nations

     they have many advantages of us; the one is, by their fashioned ships called boyers, hoybarks, hoys, and others […]

Anagrams

• Robey, ybore