different between meer vs emeer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??(?)/
• Homophone: mere

Etymology 1

See mere.

Noun

meer (plural meers)

1. A boundary.
2. Obsolete form of mere (a lake).

Etymology 2

Adjective

meer (comparative meerer, superlative meerest)

1. Obsolete form of mere.
   • 1720, John Enty, Truth and Liberty consistent

     For, is this more contrary to Scripture […] than 'tis to say, that our blessed Saviour is a meer Man […]

   • 1742, Isaac Watts, Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects

     And so we may have an ever-growing Idea of infinite Number as well as infinite Space or Emptiness, yet it is a meer Idea, and hath no real Existence without us.

Anagrams

• -mere, Emer., Mere, REME, erme, mere, reem

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch meer, from Middle Dutch m?re, from Old Dutch meri, from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

meer (plural mere)

1. lake

Synonyms

• pan

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Old High German m?ro, from Proto-Germanic *maizô. Compare German mehr, Dutch meer, Saterland Frisian moor, English more, Icelandic meira, Swedish mera, Gothic ???????????????????? (maiza).

Adverb

meer

1. (Uri) more

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 64.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?r/, [m??r]
• Hyphenation: meer
• Rhymes: -e?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch m?re, from Old Dutch meri, from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

meer n (plural meren, diminutive meertje n)

1. lake
2. (obsolete, literary) sea

   Synonym: zee

Derived terms

• binnenmeer
• Haarlemmermeer
• IJsselmeer
• Ketelmeer
• kunstmeer
• kustmeer
• Markermeer
• meerkat
• meerkoet
• meerman
• meermin
• strandmeer
• stuwmeer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: meer

Etymology 2

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

Determiner

meer

1. comparative degree of veel; more.

Derived terms

• meerder
• meertalig
• meervoud

Related terms

• meest

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch mêer, from Old Dutch m?r. This form stood alongside the older Middle Dutch mêe, from Old Dutch *m?, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.

Adverb

meer

1. anymore, any longer

Hunsrik

Alternative forms

• mëyer, mier (Wiesemann spelling system)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me??/

Etymology 1

From Middle High German wir, from Old High German wir, from Proto-West Germanic *wi?, from Proto-Germanic *w?z, *wiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy-, plural of *é?h?.

Compare German wir, Pennsylvania German mer, Yiddish ???? (mir), English we.

Pronoun

meer

1. we

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Middle High German mir (“me”), from Old High German mir (“me”), from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”). Cognate with Old English m? (“me”).

Pronoun

meer

1. stressed dative of ich.

Inflection

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Latin

Verb

meer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of me?

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From earlier mêe, modified by analogy with the adjective mêre.

Adverb

mêer

1. Alternative form of mêe

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “meer (IX)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page IX

English

Noun

emeer (plural emeers)

1. Alternative spelling of emir