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English

Etymology 1

Noun

mer (plural mers)

1. (chemistry) A repeat unit: a structural unit which through repetition forms a polymer.

Etymology 2

Noun

mer pl (plural only)

1. (fantasy) merpeople

Anagrams

• EMR, ERM, MRE, R.E.M., REM, Rem, erm, rem

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• meru

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *melum, from Latin m?lum. Compare Daco-Romanian m?r.

Noun

mer n (plural meari/meare)

1. apple

Derived terms

• mirush

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *melus, from Latin m?lus.

Noun

mer m (plural meri)

1. apple tree

Derived terms

• agrumer
• miric

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin merus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?mer/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?me?/

Adjective

mer (feminine mera, masculine plural mers, feminine plural meres)

1. mere, simple

Derived terms

• merament

Further reading

• “mer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse merr, from Proto-Germanic *marhij?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me??/
• Rhymes: -e??

Noun

mer f (genitive singular merar, plural merar)

1. mare, female horse

   Synonym: ryssa

Declension

French

Etymology

From Middle French mer, from Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: maire, maires, mère, Mère, mères, mers

Noun

mer f (plural mers)

1. sea (large body of water)

Derived terms

Related terms

• marin
• marine

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: lanmè
• Haitian Creole: lanmè
• ? Volapük: mel

Further reading

• “mer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?r]
• Rhymes: -?r

Etymology 1

From Proto-Ugric *mär?- (“to believe, have faith in dare”).

Verb

mer

2. (auxiliary with an infinitive) to dare (to have the courage to do something)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Ugric *mär?- (“to dive, plunge”).

Verb

mer

2. (transitive) to ladle, scoop (to get some liquid or grainy substance out of somewhere by turning in a bowl-shaped object and let it fill)

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• (to dare): mer in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (to ladle): mer in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?/

Pronoun

mer

1. unstressed dative of ich.

Inflection

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Livonian

Alternative forms

• mie'r, me? (Courland)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri. Akin to Finnish meri.

Noun

mer

1. sea

Lolopo

Etymology

From Proto-Loloish *mo² (Bradley). Cognate with Sichuan Yi ?? (mo mu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m?²¹]

Noun

mer 

1. (Yao'an) sky, heaven

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?/

Pronoun

mer

1. unstressed form of mir

Declension

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

mer f (plural mers)

1. sea (large body of water)

Related terms

• marin

Descendants

• French: mer

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German mir, from Old High German mir, from Proto-Germanic *miz, dative and instrumental of *ek. Cognate with German mir, English me.

Pronoun

mer

1. dative of i: me, to me

References

• “mer” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/

Noun

mer f

1. spade (a garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• mere

Etymology

From Old Norse meiri.

Adjective

mer

1. comparative degree of mye

Adverb

mer

1. more; used in forming the comparative form of long/foreign adjectives

Derived terms

• mer eller mindre

See also

• meir (Nynorsk)

References

• “mer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

mer f (oblique plural mers, nominative singular mer, nominative plural mers)

1. sea (large body of water)

Related terms

• marin

Descendants

• French: mer
  • Antillean Creole: lanmè
  • Haitian Creole: lanmè
  • ? Volapük: mel
• Norman: mé (Jersey)
• Walloon: mer

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *maiz.

Adverb

m?r

1. more

Pennsylvania German

Etymology 1

Cognate to German wir, mir.

Pronoun

mer

1. we, first person plural nominative pronoun.

Declension

Alternative forms

• mir

Etymology 2

Cognate to German mir.

Pronoun

mer

1. me, to me, first person singular dative pronoun.

Declension

Alternative forms

• mir

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun

mer

1. one, indefinite third person singular nominative pronoun.

References

• Kate Burridge, Changes with Pennsylvania German, in Ethnosyntax (2002), page 226: mer saage nett […] (we don't say […] )

Romansch

Alternative forms

• mar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

mer m (plural mers)

1. (Puter) sea

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish m?r, from Old Norse meir, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?r/

Adjective

mer

1. Comparative form of mycket, used in construction of comparative form of certain adjectives; more,

References

• mer in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• mer in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• rem

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

mer ? (plural mers)

1. sea

Welsh

Adjective

mer

1. Nasal mutation of ber (“short”).

Mutation

Malay

Noun

meriam (Jawi spelling ??????, plural meriam-meriam, informal 1st possessive meriamku, impolite 2nd possessive meriammu, 3rd possessive meriamnya)

1. cannon, artillery

Further reading

• “meriam” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.