# nary
## English
### Alternative forms

* narry

### Etymology

Univerbation of ne'er +‎ a.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈnɛə.ɹi/
* (US, without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA: /ˈnɛɚ.i/
* (US, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA: /ˈnɛɹ.i/
** Audio (US, Mary–marry–merry merger):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈneː.ɹi/
* (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /ˈneəɹi/
* (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /ˈniəɹi/
* (Scotland) IPA: /ˈneɹɪ/, /ˈneɹe/
* (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /ˈnɜːɹɪ/
* Rhymes: -ɛəɹi

### Adverb

nary (not comparable)
* (somewhat dated) Not, never.
** 2014, Richard Swenson, More Than Meets the Eye: Fascinating Glimpses of God's Power and Design, Tyndale House, →ISBN:Every day, uncomplaining, this ten-ounce muscle contracts 100 thousand times nary “missing a beat.” Over a lifetime of faithful service, these two self-lubricating, self-regulating, high-capacity pumps beat two and one-half billion times […]
** 1923, Photoplay: The Aristocrat of Motion Picture Magazines:And all about the room, candles gleaming in branched sconces. Nary one glare of electric light.
** 2014, Lori Gertz, When Mama Can't Kiss it Better, A journey of love, loss and acceptance‎:Then, it took her nary ten minutes to diagnose me with adrenal fatigue
** 2018, Antero Pietila, The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy that Shaped an American City‎:Nary three weeks before, on December 12, Officer Cherylann Young steered a marked Miami-Dade County police cruiser toward the perimeter of MIA, the international airport.
** 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Mr. Hat), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch:
    Mr. Hat: 'GOLDARMOR, THERE YOU ARE! I WAS THINKING... I'VE FOUGHT SCADS OF FOES, YET NARY A HAT IS WITHIN A GRASP!'

### Adjective

nary (not comparable)
* (somewhat dated) Not any.
** 1910, John McElroy, Si Klegg: Experiences of Si and Shorty on the Great Tullahoma Campaign, page 109:We'uns wuz willin't fout fur ole Tennessee, but for nary other State. When he started out o' Tennessee we'uns jest concluded t' strike out and leave him.
** 1961 March 20, Flannery O'Connor, letter to Maryat Lee, [ublished in 1988, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (→ISBN):
    I'm cheered you liked [“The Partridge Festival”] but I must have it back as I have nary other copy. If you really want to read somebody, read Proust for pity's sake.
** 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 286:Together standing on the step outside the apartment house. Where nary a moth will ever come to smash its little dust on a Bonniface window pane.
** 2010, Dorothy McCleary, Not for Heaven, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 289:"Pish, and who cares for nary other?" Mrs. Bostwick cried out, tossing Etta's hand away from her. "I do, for one," said Etta tartly.

#### Translations
### References

* “nary”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* Arny, N-ray, NYRA, Ryan, yarn

## Lithuanian
### Noun

narỹ
* vocative singular of narỹs (“joint”)

## Polish
### Etymology

Uncertain, possibly from Lithuanian nariaĩ (singular narỹs), possibly through Belarusian на́ры (náry). Compare Russian на́ры (náry) and Ukrainian на́ри (náry). First attested in 1570.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈna.rɘ/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈna.rɨ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arɘ
* Syllabification: na‧ry

### Noun

nary nvir pl
* (archaic) Synonym of prycza.

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “nary”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* ↑ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nary”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

### Further reading

* nary in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “nary”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 153