# nor
## Translingual
### Symbol

nor
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Norwegian.

## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nô, IPA: /nɔː/
* (General American) enPR: nôr, IPA: /noɹ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
* Homophone: gnaw (non-rhotic)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither. By surface analysis, not +‎ or.

#### Conjunction

nor
* (literary) And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).
    Nor did I stop to think, but ran.
    They are happy, nor need we worry.
** 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.
** 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 […]
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXV, page 54:The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […]
* A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true.
    I am neither hungry nor thirsty nor tired.
** c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:But neither breath of Morn when she ascends / With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun / On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, / Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; / Nor grateful Evening mild; nor silent Night / With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
** 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
* (archaic) Neither.
** c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.
** 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.
* Used to introduce a further negative statement.
    The struggle didn't end, nor was it diminished.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
* (UK, dialect) Than.
    He's no better nor you.
** 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131:'I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be.'
** 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 92:I wouldn’t like to live here though, not after dark. Sooner you nor me.

##### Derived terms

* buff nor stye
* common sense is neither common nor sensical
* for love nor money
* gentle nor simple
* hide nor hair
* make head nor tail of
* make neither head nor tail of
* meddle nor make
* neither a borrower nor a lender be
* neither fish, flesh, nor fowl
* neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring; neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
* neither fish nor flesh
* neither fish nor fowl
* neither here nor there
* neither use nor ornament
* neither … nor
* rhyme nor reason
* tide nor time tarrieth no man

##### See also

* neither

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

nor (plural nors)
* (logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR

##### Coordinate terms

* and
* nand
* or
* xor

### Anagrams

* NRO, RON, Ron, orn, ron

## Aromanian
### Noun

nor
* Alternative form of norã

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nor/ [nor]
* Rhymes: -or
* Hyphenation: nor

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Basque *nor, containing the interrogative prefix *no-.

#### Pronoun

nor (interrogative)
* who
    Nor da? ― Who is he/she?
    Ez nekien nor zinen. ― I didn't know who you were.
    Norentzat da opari hau? ― Who is this present for?

##### Derived terms

* nor baino nor
* nor baitzen ere
* nor edo nor (“someone”)
* nor ere
* nor eta nor
* nor gehiago
* nor izan (“to be capable”)

### Etymology 2

From the interrogative pronoun.

#### Adjective

nor (indeclinable)
* (grammatical term) (of a verb) intransitive without a dative argument
    Nor aditzak euskarazko aditzik errezenak dira. ― In Basque, nor verbs are the easiest to learn.

### References

* ↑ “no-” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

### Further reading

* “nor”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
* “nor”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Champenois
### Alternative forms

* (Langrois) no

### Etymology

Inherited from Old French noir, from Latin nigrum.

### Pronunciation

IPA: /nɔr/

### Adjective

nor m (feminine nore, plural nors)
* (Troyen, Langrois) black

### References

* Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎ (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
* Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎ (in French), Troyes

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnor]

### Noun

nor f
* genitive plural of nora

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: nor
* Rhymes: -ɔr

### Noun

nor (only as singular, with definite article: de nor)
* (informal) jail, prison; imprisonment
    Synonyms: bajes, bak, gevang, gevangenis, lik

## Megleno-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin nubilum. Compare Romanian nor, Aromanian nior.

### Noun

nor m
* cloud

## Norman
### Alternative forms

* nord (continental Normandy, Guernsey, Jersey)

### Etymology

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

### Noun

nor m (uncountable)
* (Sark) north

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɔr/
* Rhymes: -ɔr
* Syllabification: nor

### Noun

nor f
* genitive plural of nora

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* nour — regional, Moldavia (region)
* noor — regional, Oltenia
* nuor, nuvăr — regional, Banat
* nuar — archaic, obsolete

### Etymology

From older nuar, nuăr, from Latin nūbilum, noun use of the neuter of the adjective nūbilus (“cloudy”), from Latin nūbēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”). Compare Aromanian nior, Spanish nube, Italian nuvola, Friulian nûl, Portuguese nuvem, Catalan núvol, Provençal nyiuro, niora.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [nor]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

nor m (plural nori)
* cloud

#### Derived terms

* (a se) înnora
* noros
* zgârie-nori

## Slovene
### Etymology

From German Narr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɔ́r/

### Adjective

nȍr (comparative bȍlj nȍr, superlative nȁjbolj nȍr)
* crazy, insane, mad

#### Derived terms

* norčàv
* nôrec
* noréti
* noróst

### Further reading

* “nor”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Swedish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish nor, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz. Cognate with English narrow.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nuːr/

### Noun

nor n
* narrow strait

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | nor | nors |
| singular | definite | noret | norets |
| plural | indefinite | nor | nors |
| plural | definite | noren | norens |

### Further reading

* nor in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
* nor in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

### Anagrams

* ron

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *noora.

### Noun

nor
* rope

#### Declension
## Yola
### Conjunction

nor
* Alternative form of noor
** 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:Mye thee friend ne're waant welcome, nor straayart comfoort.May thy friend ne'er want welcome, nor the stranger comfort.
** 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 104:Mee piggès, mee geearthès, nor nodhing threeve,My pigs, my goats, nor nothing thrive,

### References

* 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 100