Urner

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Urner.

Proper noun

Urner (plural Urners)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Urner is the 122314^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 141 individuals. Urner is most common among White (87.23%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Urner”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• re-run, runer, rerun

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʊʁnɐ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʊʁnɐ
• Hyphenation: Ur‧ner

Etymology 1

From Uri +‎ -n- +‎ -er.

Noun

Urner m (strong, genitive Urners, plural Urner, feminine Urnerin)

1. a native or inhabitant of Uri, a canton of Switzerland.

Declension

Declension of Urner [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Urner	die	Urner
genitive	eines	des	Urners	der	Urner
dative	einem	dem	Urner	den	Urnern
accusative	einen	den	Urner	die	Urner

Etymology 2

From Uri +‎ -n- +‎ -er.

Adjective

Urner (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. (relational) of Uri

   Synonym: urnerisch

Usage notes

• Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.

Further reading

• “Urner (Einwohner)” in Duden online
• “Urner (Adjektiv)” in Duden online
• “Urner” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon