nother
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnʌðə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnʌðɚ/
- Rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English nōhwæþer. Compare neither, nauther.
Pronoun[edit]
nother
Adjective[edit]
nother (not comparable)
Etymology 2[edit]
Variant of an other, another, influenced by re-analysis as a nother. Compare Middle English another.
Pronoun[edit]
nother
Adjective[edit]
nother (not comparable)
- (obsolete outside of colloquial US) Different, other.
- 2009 October 1, Automotive Editors, “Long-Term Test Cars”, in Poplar Mechanics[1], retrieved 2012-03-14:
- Executing it all well, with the feel, look and operation of a real luxury car, is a whole nother ball of wax.
- 2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), →ISBN:
- He has said elfsheen four nother ways — elfsheen, elfshine, elfshone, elfshyne.
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Middle English[edit]
Adverb[edit]
nother
- Alternative form of nouther
- 1485, Thomas Malory, edited by Eugène Vinaver, Le Morte d'Arthur[2], 1947, book XVIII:
- Than the quene seyde, ‘Syr, as Jesu be my helpe!’ She wyst nat how, nother in what manere.
- Then the Queen said, ‘Sir, for Jesus help me!’ She knew not how, nor in what manner.
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ii”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 214:
- Syre he ſayd / ther of be as it be may I haue aſked that I wylle aſke / wel ſayd the kynge ye ſhal have mete & drynke ynouȝ / I neuer deffended ƿt none / nother my frende ne my foo
- Sire, he said, that is it; I have asked what I would ask. Well, said the king, you shall have meat and drink enough. I never took vengence with any, neither my friend nor my foe.
Descendants[edit]
Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant of anoor (“another”), influenced by re-analysis as a nother.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
nother
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 59
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