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Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *nëtra. Cognates include Finnish nöyrä (“humble; flexible”), Livonian nõ’ddõrz (“weak, small”), Votic nõdrõ (“weak, frail; flexible; thin; humble”), Ingrian nodra (“flexible; weak”), Livvi n'eyry (“skilful”) and Karelian neyrä (“humble; bad, weak, poor; windy; skilful; smart”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
nõder (genitive nõdra, partitive nõtra, comparative nõdrem, superlative kõige nõdrem or nõdrim)
- feeble, frail, weak, infirm
1894, Andres Rennit, Nurmelt ja niidult (poetry), →ISBN, Mu pääle ära kaeba:Küll tean, küll mõistan, palju oleks / Sul pärida ſu poja käeſt, / Küll tunnen, mis mul teha tuleks, / Kuid käevars on nõder wäeſt.- I know, I understand, how much / thou oughtest to ask thy son, / I know what I ought to do, / yet the arm is weak.
1954 April 8, Jakob Tamm, 0:00:19 from the start, in Punik, spoken by Leo Martin, Eesti Rahvusringhääling:Ja kus näib teine nõdrem ees, / seal iga kergatski on mees!- And where someone else seems before you seems to be more feeble, there even every coxcomb is a man!
- sickly, valetudinarian
- senile, decrepit
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References
- nõder in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “nõder”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009