niver

• (Mid-Ulster English) IPA^(key): /ˈnə.vər/, /ˈnɛ̈.vəɹ/, /ˈnɜ.vəɹ/

niver (not comparable)

1. (Mid-Ulster, others) Alternative form of never
   • 1837, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. The Second Series, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, chapter SEVEN DIALS, page 149:

     “Niver mind,” replies the opposition expressively, “niver mind; you go home, and, ven you're quite sober, mend your stockings.”

   • 1983, William Forbes Marshall, The Lad:

     An’ niver got half his fill.

From Proto-Brythonic *niβ̃er, from Latin numerus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈniː.vɛr/

niver m (plural niveroù)

1. number, numeral

• nivver

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪ.vər/, /ˈnɛ.vər/

niver

1. never

niver (nominative plural nivers)

1. university

Seemingly from Vulgar Latin *nivāre, a verb based on Latin nivem (“snow”, noun).

• IPA^(key): /ni.ve/

niver

1. to snow

• nive