different between dere vs mere

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *dar? (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?órh?-eh?, from *d?erh?- (“to leap, spring”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan ????????????????? (d?r?), Sanskrit ???? (dh??r?).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??/
• Homophones: dear, deer

Noun

dere (plural deres)

1. (Britain dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.

   She did him dere.

Etymology 2

From Middle English deren, derien, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *d??(w)- (“to sharpen”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“to harm, hurt, injure”), Saterland Frisian dera (“to injure, damage”), West Frisian deare, derre (“to harm, injure”), Dutch deren (“to injure, damage, scathe”), Middle High German tern (“to injure”). Related to dart.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??/
• Homophones: dear, deer

Verb

dere (third-person singular simple present deres, present participle dering, simple past and past participle dered)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
   • c.1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:

     And of Achilles with his queynte spere, / For he koude with it bothe heele and dere […].
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To annoy, trouble, grieve.

Derived terms

• dering

Etymology 3

Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.

Alternative forms

• der

Pronunciation

• (AAVE, NYC) IPA^(key): /d??(?)/
• (Ulster English) IPA^(key): /d???(?)/
• (Midlands) IPA^(key): /d???(?)/
• (rural areas of Scotland, rare) IPA^(key): /d?i??/
• Homophone: dare (some accents)

Adverb

dere (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Interjection

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Noun

dere (uncountable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Pronoun

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Anagrams

• Rede, Reed, deer, dree, rede, reed

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?r?]

Verb

dere

1. third-person singular present of drát

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?r?

Verb

dere

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of deren

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þér, ér, from a variant of Proto-Germanic *j?z, from Proto-Indo-European *y??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?de???/
• Rhymes: -e?r?

Pronoun

dere (objective case dere)

1. (personal) you (2nd person plural subject pronoun)

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

dere (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person singular present of derati

Slovene

Verb

dere

1. third-person singular present of dreti

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ???? (darre).

Noun

dere

1. valley

Declension

References

• dere in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Welsh

Alternative forms

• tyrd (North Wales)
• tyred (North Wales, literary)

Pronunciation

• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?d?r?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?de?r?/, /?d?r?/

Verb

dere

1. (South Wales) second-person singular imperative of dod

Mutation

Zazaki

Etymology

From Persian ???? (darre).

Noun

dere ?

1. valley

English

Pronunciation

(body of water; limit; famous; just, only):

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??/

(Maori war-club):

• IPA^(key): /?m??i/, /?m???/

Etymology 1

From Middle English mere, from Old English mere (“the sea; mere, lake”), from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognate with West Frisian mar, Dutch meer, Low German meer, Meer, German Meer, Norwegian mar (only used in combinations, such as marbakke). Related to Latin mare, Breton mor, Russian ????? (móre). Doublet of mar and mare.

Alternative forms

• meer, meere, mear

Noun

mere (plural meres)

1. (dialectal or literary) A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere.
   • 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 20 p. 16[1]:

     When making for the Brooke, the Falkoner doth espie

     On River, Plash, or Mere, where store of Fowle doth lye:

   • The meres of Shropshire and Chesbire.

   • 1913, Annie S. Swan, The Fairweathers

     She loved.. to watch the lovely shadows in the silent depths of the placid mere.

   • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 194:

     Lok got to his feet and wandered along by the marshes towards the mere where Fa had disappeared.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English mere, from Old English m?re, ?em?re (“boundary; limit”), from Proto-Germanic *mairij? (“boundary”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fence”). Cognate with Dutch meer (“a limit, boundary”), Icelandic mærr (“borderland”), Swedish landamäre (“border, borderline, boundary”).

Alternative forms

• meer, meere, mear, meare

Noun

mere (plural meres)

1. Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:

     The Troian Brute did first that Citie found, / And Hygate made the meare thereof by West, / And Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest.

Derived terms

• Hertsmere

Verb

mere (third-person singular simple present meres, present participle mering, simple past and past participle mered)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To set divisions and bounds.
3. (cartography) To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.

Related terms

• mereing

Etymology 3

From Middle English mere, from Old English m?re (“famous, great, excellent, sublime, splendid, pure, sterling”), from Proto-Germanic *m?rijaz, *m?raz (“excellent, famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?ros (“large, handsome”). Cognate with Middle High German mære (“famous”), Icelandic mærr (“famous”), and German Mär, Märchen ("fairy tale").

Alternative forms

• meere, mare

Adjective

mere (comparative more mere, superlative most mere)

1. (obsolete) Famous.

Etymology 4

From Anglo-Norman meer, from Old French mier, from Latin merus. Perhaps influenced by Old English m?re (“famous, great, excellent, sublime, splendid, pure, sterling”), or conflated with Etymology 3.

Adjective

mere (comparative merer, superlative merest)

1. (obsolete) Pure, unalloyed [8^th-17^thc.].
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.8:

     So oft as I this history record, / My heart doth melt with meere compassion […].
2. (obsolete) Nothing less than; complete, downright [15^th-18^thc.].
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol I, ch. 35:

     This freedom of expostulation exalted his mother's ire to meer frenzy […] .

3. Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected. [from 16^thc.]

   • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

Derived terms

• merely

Translations

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Maori mere (“more”).

Noun

mere (plural meres)

1. A Maori war-club.
   • 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford 2000, p. 41:

     As Owen prepared to dismiss the matter, Rule produced something that really caught the great man's eye – a greenstone mere, the warclub of the Maori.

Anagrams

• Emer., REME, erme, meer, reem

Afrikaans

Noun

mere

1. plural of meer

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse meiri (“more”), from Proto-Germanic *maizô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?r?/, [?me??]

Adjective

mere

1. more; to a higher degree

   Han er mere højtidelig end jeg er.

   He is more solemn than I am.

2. more; in greater quantity

   I har mere plads end jeg har.

   You have more space than I do.

Usage notes

"Mere", in the second sense, is only used with uncountable nouns. For countable nouns, use flere.

Estonian

Noun

mere

1. genitive singular of meri

Italian

Adjective

mere f

1. feminine plural of mero

Anagrams

• erme

Latin

Verb

mer?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of mere?

References

• mere in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mere in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch m?ro, from Proto-Germanic *maizô.

Adjective

mêre

2. greater, larger

   Antonym: minre

3. older

   Antonym: minre

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Determiner

mêre

1. more

   Antonym: minre

Descendants

• Dutch: meer

Adverb

mêre

1. Alternative form of mêe

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch meri, from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

m?re f or n

2. lake (fresh water)
3. sea (salt water)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: meer
  • Afrikaans: meer
• Limburgish: maer

Further reading

• “mere (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mere (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “mere (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “mere (VIII)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page VIII

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French mere medre, from Latin m?ter, m?trem.

Noun

mere f (plural meres)

1. mother (female family member)

Descendants

• French: mère
  • Haitian Creole: mè

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”). Cognate with Old Frisian mere (West Frisian mar), Old Saxon meri (Low German Meer), Dutch meer, Old High German meri (German Meer), Old Norse marr (Swedish mar). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin mare, Old Irish muir (Breton mor), Old Church Slavonic ???? (more) (Russian ????? (móre)), Lithuanian mãre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me.re/

Noun

mere m

1. lake
2. pool
3. (poetic or in compounds) sea

Declension

Derived terms

• meresw?n
• ?þmere

Descendants

• Middle English: mere
  • English: mere
  • Scots: mere

See also

• ?a (“river”)
• g?rse?? (“ocean”)
• s? (“sea”)
• str?am (“stream”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• medre

Etymology

From earlier medre, from Latin m?ter, m?trem.

Noun

mere f (oblique plural meres, nominative singular mere, nominative plural meres)

1. mother (female family member)

Descendants

• Bourguignon: meire
• Middle French: mere
  • French: mère
    • Haitian Creole: mè
• Norman: mère, méthe
• Walloon: mere

Romanian

Noun

mere n pl

1. plural of m?r

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

mere (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of meriti