different between mir vs mair

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Russian ??? (mir, “world”).

Noun

mir (plural mirs)

1. A Russian village community.
   • 1878, Donald Mackenzie Wallace, Russia (volumes 1-3, page 179)

     [T]he constitution of the village […] was a subject which specially interested me, because I was aware that the Mir is the most peculiar of Russian institutions.

   • R. Van Bergen, The Story of Russia, page 190:

     The mir was the only means to prevent this, and mir meant serfdom under another name. The landowners disposed of their land, or of so much as was required to support the peasants, not to individuals but to the mir.

Anagrams

• IRM, MRI, RMI, rim

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German mir (“we”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mir/ ((stressed) IPA^(key): /m??r/; (unstressed) IPA^(key): /m?r/)

Pronoun

mir

1. (personal) we
2. (personal) dative singular of ich: (to) me

Declension

German

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /mi???/

• Rhymes: -i???

• (colloquially in unstressed position) IPA^(key): /m?/, /m?/

Etymology 1

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”). More at me.

Pronoun

mir

1. (personal) dative of ich: me, to me:

Derived terms

• mirs (“it to me”)

Etymology 2

From Middle High German mir (“we”). The form originated through assimilation of wir with a preceding verb form and subsequent unetymological segmentation. This is possibly already an Old High German development, since a common Old High German ending of the 1st person plural was -em, thus bitt?m wir ? *bitt?-mir (modern bitten wir (“ask we, do we ask”)). The contraction as such is definitely old, though the common form of assimilation, both in written Old High German and written Middle High German, is through loss of the nasal: bitt? wir. The form with mir may either be a younger development in Middle High German, or a more colloquial form that only later appeared in writing. Older age is suggested by the great dominance of mir throughout modern dialects of High German. Compare Yiddish ???? (mir), Luxembourgish mir. Compare also Old Norse mit (“we two”), Norwegian Nynorsk me (“we”).

Pronoun

mir

1. (dialectal or colloquial) Alternative form of wir (“we”)
   • 16th century / 1874, Alsfelder Passionsspiel mit Wörterbuch herausgegeben von C. W. M. Grein, p. 13 l. 458f. [note: the text also has mer for 1st person plural nominative]:

     Mir willen widder in die helle,
     Die armen sele siden und quellen.

Usage notes

• The form is not common in those parts of northern Germany where Low German dialects have traditionally been spoken.

Further reading

• “mir” in Duden online

German Low German

Alternative forms

• meer (some dialects)
• mehr (some dialects, including Münsterländisch)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?æ?/ (Mecklenburg, Pomerania)
• IPA^(key): /mi???/ (Holstein, Lower Saxony, northern Brandenburg)
• IPA^(key): /mi?r/ (southern Brandenburg)

Adjective

mir

1. (Mecklenburgisch, Western Pomeranian, some Northern Low Saxon, parts of Brandenburg) comparative degree of v?l; more

Irish

Adjective

mir

1. inflection of mear:
   1. vocative/genitive masculine singular
   2. (archaic) dative feminine singular

Mutation

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• (most dialects) IPA^(key): /m?r/
• (Maastricht) IPA^(key): /mir/

Pronoun

mir

1. (personal, obsolete) dative of ich: me, to me

See also

• ich
• mich
• miener

Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

• mer (unstressed)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi??/, [mi???]

Etymology 1

From Old High German mir.

Pronoun

mir

1. first-person singular, dative: me, to me

Etymology 2

From Old High German wir through assimilation with a preceding verb ending (-n w- > -m-) and subsequent unetymological segmentation. See German mir (etymology 2) for the details. Compare also Luxembourgish dir (“you”), in which a similar development took place.

Pronoun

mir

1. first-person plural, nominative: we

   Mir hu véier Hausdéieren. — We have four pets.

Declension

Marshallese

Etymology

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [m?ir?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /m?ir?/
• Bender phonemes: {mir}

Adjective

mir

1. red, of reddish coconuts or the sky

Noun

mir

1. the color red, of reddish coconuts or the sky

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Meriam

Noun

mir

1. word
2. language

Middle English

Noun

mir

1. Alternative form of mirre

Middle High German

Etymology

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”). More at me.

Pronoun

mir

1. me: dative singular of ich

Descendants

• Alemannic German: mir, mer
• Bavarian:

  Cimbrian: miar

  Mòcheno: mer

• Central Franconian:

  Hunsrik: meer, mer

• German: mir
• Luxembourgish: mir, meer
• Yiddish: ???? (mir)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowing from Russian ??? (mir, “peace, world”).

Noun

mir m (definite singular miren, indefinite plural mirer, definite plural mirene)

1. (historical) a mir

References

Anagrams

• rim

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowing from Russian ??? (mir, “peace, world”).

Noun

mir m (definite singular miren, indefinite plural mirar, definite plural mirane)

1. (historical) a mir

References

Anagrams

• rim

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German mir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi???/

Pronoun

mir

1. to me
2. we

Declension

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Greek ????? (mýron), partly through the Old Church Slavonic intermediate ???? (müro). Compare also Aromanian mir.

Noun

mir n (plural miruri)

1. chrism
2. unction
3. holy oil

See also

• mire

Etymology 2

Verb

mir

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of mira

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin m?rus.

Noun

mir m (plural mirs)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) exterior wall

Alternative forms

• meir (Surmiran)
• mür (Puter, Vallader)

Related terms

• paraid (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
• preit (Sursilvan)
• pare (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Etymology 2

From Latin murem, the accusative singular form of m?s (“mouse”).

Noun

mir f (plural mirs)

1. (Sutsilvan) mouse

Alternative forms

• mieur (Rumantsch Grischun)
• miur (Sursilvan)
• meir (Surmiran)
• mür (Puter, Vallader)

Derived terms

• miezmir-a-miezutschi (“bat”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mir? (“peace; world”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mî?r/

Noun

m?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. peace

2. calm, tranquility

Declension

Derived terms

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mir? (“peace; world”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mí?r/

Noun

m?r m inan

1. peace (tranquility, quiet, harmony)

Inflection

Tolai

Alternative forms

• amir

Pronoun

mir

1. First-person exclusive dual pronoun: he/she and I, him/her and me

Declension

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ??? (mir).

Noun

mir

1. world

Inflection

Synonyms

• mail'm

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “???, ????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

English

Etymology

From Middle English mair, mare, from Old English m?ra (“more”), from Proto-Germanic *maizô. More at more.

Pronunciation

• (UK, Geordie) IPA^(key): /m??/

Adjective

mair (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) more

Adverb

mair (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) more

Anagrams

• Amir, Irma, Mari, Mira, RIMA, amir, raim, rami, rima

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish maraid, mairid (“persist, remain alive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?a??/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /m????/ (as if spelled moir)

Verb

mair (present analytic maireann, future analytic mairfidh, verbal noun maireachtáil, past participle mairthe)

1. live, remain, survive

2. last (“endure, hold out, continue”)
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 199:

     m???? n w?n d?? kai??š el?.

     conventional orthography: Mairfidh an mhóin dúinn coicís eile.

     The turf will last us another fortnight.

Conjugation

Alternative verbal nouns: maireachtaint, mairstean

Derived terms

• maireachtáil (“living (noun)”)
• go maire tú an lá (“happy birthday”)

Mutation

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish mér, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mh??rós.

Noun

mair f (genitive singular mair, plural meir)

1. (anatomy) finger, digit
2. prong
3. key (of piano)
4. hand (of clock)
5. tributary (of river)

Derived terms

Mutation

Occitan

Noun

mair f (plural mairs)

1. (Gascony) mother
2. (Gascony) riverbed

References

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?r/

Etymology 1

From northern Middle English mare, from Old English m?ra (compare English more), from Proto-Germanic *maizô.

Adjective

mair (not comparable)

1. bigger, greater

Adverb

mair (not comparable)

1. more

Derived terms

• mair by taiken
• mair oot ower
• the mair

Related terms

• mae

Etymology 2

From Middle English meyr, from Old French maire (“head of a city or town government”), from Latin maior (“bigger, greater, superior”), comparative of magnus (“big, great”).

Noun

mair (plural mairs)

1. (archaic) mayor

Derived terms

• mair o fee
• mairship
• shirra-mair

Etymology 3

From Old English m?r.

Alternative forms

• muir

Noun

mair (plural mairs)

1. (South Scots) moor

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish maraid, mairid (“persist, remain alive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??/

Verb

mair (past mhair, future mairidh, verbal noun mairsinn or maireann or maireachdainn, past participle mairte)

1. last, continue

Synonyms

• seas

Derived terms

• maireannach
• nach maireann