Nueradj.n.
/ˈnuːə/, U.S. /ˈnuər/ A. adj. (attributive).
Of, relating to, or designating an African people of south-eastern Sudan and Ethiopia (see sense B. 1) or their Nilotic language (see sense B. 2).
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Nilo-Saharan languages > [adjective] > Nilotic
Nilo-Hamitic1850
Nilotic1850
Nuer1850
1850 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 20 286 The banks are inhabited at this place by the Nuér Negroes, who breed cattle.
1873 E. E. Frewer tr. G. Schweinfurth Heart of Afr. I. iii. 118 Here, in the heart of the Nueir population, in a district called Nyeng, we fixed our quarters.
1917 Man 17 48 Composed in 1914 by the men of Atet, one of the larger Bor clearings, on the occasion of the northern Bor Jieng being raided by the Nuer tribe.
1951 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 81 1 The Latin spiritus..suggests, as does the Nuer word, both the intangible quality of air and the breathing or blowing out of air.
1976 D. Topolski Muzungu iv. 50 Tall, dignified, lean Nuer, Shilluk or Dinka men from the south mingled with the lighter skinned Arabic northerners.
2001 Toronto Star 30 May a22/5 I hope to hear stories of the Nuer people participating in the development of their own country.
B. n.
1. A member of an African people of south-eastern Sudan and Ethiopia.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Sudan > [noun]
Kababish1790
Nuba1790
Shilluk1790
Fulani1839
Nuer1861
Hausa1879
Uduk1927
1861 J. Petherick Egypt, Soudan & Central Afr. xx. 362 We..made fast under two villages, which we found were inhabited by the Nouaer.
1873 E. E. Frewer tr. G. Schweinfurth Heart of Afr. I. iii. 118 We made a stop, and did some bartering with the Nueir.
1889 Scribner's Mag. Nov. 522/2 The first people met south of the Sobat are the Nouer.
1910 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 40 175 This code..is closely akin to that of the Nuers, who are a much more recent offset from the original fountain of these tribes of which the Dinkas are the reduced stem.
1932 C. G. Seligman & B. Z. Seligman Pagan Tribes Nilotic Sudan vi. 222 Every Nuer has a name given to him at birth by his father or other member of his family.
2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 Apr. 4/3 They are related..peoples: The Dinka and the Nuer. You can mistake one for the other at a distance.
2. The Nilotic language of the Nuer.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Nilo-Saharan languages > [noun] > Nilotic group of > Western
Acholi1874
Alur1883
Nuer1885
Lango1902
Shilluk1921
Luo1922
1885 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 14 105 In Egyptian Sudán alone we find at least a dozen languages which can neither be traced to a common source nor in any way affiliated to..the Hamitic and the Bantu. Such are..Dinka, Bari, Shilluk, Zandeh, Nuer, and others.
1894 A. Lefèvre Race & Lang. v. 162 From the lakes of the Upper Nile to the Atlantic, the Negro dialects, properly so called, prevail: (1.) The Dinka group (Bari, Bongo, Chillouk, Nouer, etc.).
1923 C. H. Stigand (title) A Nuer-English vocabulary.
1940 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Nuer iv. 184 Arab merchants..generally speak Nuer well.
1999 Church Times 16 Apr. 2/2 Prayers in English, Dinka and Nuer open the day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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