different between meer vs lake

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: l?k, IPA^(key): /le?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English lake (“lake, watercourse, body of water”), from Old English lacu (“lake, pond, pool, stream, watercourse”), from Proto-West Germanic *laku, from Proto-Germanic *lak? (“stream, pool, water aggregation”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak, drain”).

Despite their similarity in form and meaning, the word is not related to English lay (“lake”), Latin lacus (“hollow, lake, pond”), Scottish Gaelic loch (“lake”), Ancient Greek ?????? (lákkos, “waterhole, tank, pond, pit”), all from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Noun

lake (plural lakes)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
2. A large, landlocked stretch of water.
3. A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
   • 1991, Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft:

     So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?

4. (sciences) A temporary body of water.
5. (obsolete) A pit, or ditch

Usage notes

As with the names of rivers, mounts and mountains, the names of lakes are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term: Lake Titicaca or Great Slave Lake. Generally speaking, names formed using adjectives or attributives see lake added to the end, as with Reindeer Lake; lake is usually added before proper names, as with Lake Michigan. This derives from the earlier but now uncommon form lake of ~: for instance, the 19th-century Lake of Annecy is now usually simply Lake Annecy. It frequently occurs, however, that foreign placenames are misunderstood as proper nouns, as with the Chinese Taihu (“Great Lake”) and Qinghai (“Blue Sea”) being frequently rendered as Lake Tai and Qinghai Lake.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:lake

Derived terms

Translations

See lake/translations § Noun.

See also

• billabong
• lagoon
• pond
• talav
• tarn

Further reading

• Astell, Ann W. (1999) Political Allegory in Late Medieval England, Cornell University Press, ?ISBN, page 192.
• Cameron, Kenneth (1961) English Place Names, B. T. Batsford Limited, ?ISBN, page 164.
• Ferguson, Robert (1858) English Surnames: And their Place in the Teutonic Family, G. Routledge & Co., page 368.
• Maetzner, Eduard Adolf Ferdinand (2009) An English Grammar; Methodical, Analytical, and Historical, BiblioBazaar, LLC, ?ISBN, page 200.
• Rissanen, Matti (1992) History of Englishes: New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter, ?ISBN, pages 513–514.
• Sisam, Kenneth (2009) Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose, BiblioBazaar, ?ISBN.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lake, lak, lac (also loke, laik, layke), from Old English l?c (“play, sport, strife, battle, sacrifice, offering, gift, present, booty, message”), from Proto-Germanic *laik? (“play, fight”), *laikaz (“game, dance, hymn, sport”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-, *loig-, *leig- (“to bounce, shake, tremble”). Cognate with Old High German leih (“song, melody, music”). Verb form partly from Middle English laken, from Old English lacan, from Proto-Germanic *laikan?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-. More at lay, -lock.

Noun

lake (plural lakes)

1. (obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.
2. (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.

Related terms

• bridelock
• wedlock

Verb

lake (third-person singular simple present lakes, present participle laking, simple past and past participle laked)

1. (obsolete) To present an offering.
2. (chiefly dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

Etymology 3

From Middle English lake, from Old English *lacen or Middle Dutch laken; both from Proto-Germanic *lakan? (“linen; cloth; sheet”). Cognate with Dutch lake (“linen”), Dutch laken (“linen; bedsheet”), German Laken, Danish lagan, Swedish lakan, Icelandic lak, lakan.

Noun

lake (plural lakes)

1. (obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.

Etymology 4

From French laque (“lacquer”), from Persian ???? (lâk), from Hindi ??? (l?kh), from Sanskrit ???? (lak?a, “one hundred thousand”), referring to the number of insects that gather on the trees and make the resin seep out. Doublet of lakh.

Noun

lake (plural lakes)

1. In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
2. In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.

   For example, the name of a lake prepared by extending the aluminum salt prepared from FD&C Blue No. 1 upon the substratum would be FD&C Blue No. 1--Aluminum Lake.

Derived terms

• crimson lake
• lake-red
• madder lake

Translations

Verb

lake (third-person singular simple present lakes, present participle laking, simple past and past participle laked)

1. To make lake-red.

Anagrams

• Akel, Alek, Kale, Leak, ka le, kale, leak

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

lake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of laken

Anagrams

• kale

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French queue

Noun

lake

1. tail
2. queue

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Low German lake

Noun

lake m (definite singular laken, indefinite plural laker, definite plural lakene)

1. (preservative) pickle, brine

Etymology 2

From Old Norse laki

Noun

lake m (definite singular laken, indefinite plural laker, definite plural lakene)

1. (fish) burbot, eelpout (species Lota lota)

Etymology 3

As for Etymology 1.

Verb

lake

1. to pickle, put in brine

References

• “lake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Low German lake

Noun

lake m (definite singular laken, indefinite plural lakar, definite plural lakane)

1. (preservative) pickle, brine

Etymology 2

From Old Norse laki

Noun

lake m (definite singular laken, indefinite plural lakar, definite plural lakane)

1. (fish) burbot, eelpout (species Lota lota)

Etymology 3

As for Etymology 1.

Verb

lake

1. to pickle, put in brine

References

• “lake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

lake

1. inflection of lak:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French queue

Noun

lake

1. tail
2. queue

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Swahili

Adjective

lake

1. Ji class inflected form of -ake.

Swedish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German lâke (“brine; standing water”), from Old Saxon *laca, from Proto-West Germanic *laku (“steam, pool”).

Noun

lake c

1. brine

Declension

References

Etymology 2

From Old Norse laki.

Noun

lake c

1. burbot (Lota lota spp.)

Declension

References

Anagrams

• elak, kela, leka