naure

Alemannic German

Etymology

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Particularly: “connection to *nawiz (“corpse”)? tho it has no High German descendants”

From Old High German *nouweren.

Verb

naure

(Uri) to doze off

References

Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 28.