different between moor vs mason

English

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /mo?/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /mo?/, [mö?(??)~m???(??)]
• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (with the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /m??/
  • (without the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (US)
  • (with the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /m??/
  • (without the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /m?(?)?/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?)
• Homophone: Moore (all accents)
• Homophone: more (with the pour–poor merger)
• Homophone: maw (most non-rhotic accents with the pour–poor merger)
• Homophone: mooer (some accents)

Usage notes

More is not a homophone in some Northern UK accents, while mooer is.

Etymology 1

From Middle English mor, from Old English m?r, from Proto-Germanic *m?raz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon m?r, Old Saxon m?r, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic ???????????????????? (marei). See mere.

Noun

moor (plural moors)

1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)

     In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.

2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• bog
• marsh
• swamp

Etymology 2

From Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *m?rian, from Proto-West Germanic *mair?n (“to moor, fasten to”), related to *maida- (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?yt-, *meyt-, from *m?y-, *mey- (“stake, pole”). Cognate with Dutch meren (“to moor”), marren (“to bind”).

Verb

moor (third-person singular simple present moors, present participle mooring, simple past and past participle moored)

1. (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
2. (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like

3. (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

Derived terms

• mooring buoy
• mooring can
• mooring post
• mooring
• moor up
• unmoored

Translations

Further reading

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) , “mairja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Moro, Romo, room

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch moorden, from Middle Dutch morden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m???r/

Verb

moor (present moor, present participle moordende, past participle gemoor)

1. (intransitive) to murder

Related terms

• moord

Dutch

Etymology

From Moor (“member of a North African people”, became synonymous with “Saracen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?r/
• Hyphenation: moor
• Rhymes: -o?r

Noun

moor m (plural moren, diminutive moortje n)

1. Something black, notably a black horse
2. A whistling kettle, used to boil water in, as for tea or coffee

Synonyms

• (kettle): fluitketel

Derived terms

• moorkop

Anagrams

• room

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?r/

Noun

moor (genitive moori, partitive moori)

1. (pejorative) an elderly woman; a crone

Declension

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian m?ra, from Proto-Germanic *maizô. More at more.

Adjective

moor

1. more

Adverb

moor

1. more

English

Etymology

From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, Old French maçon, from Late Latin maci? (“carpenter, bricklayer”), from a derivative of Frankish *mak?n (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with *mati (“cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *matj?, *mattukaz (“ploghshare, mattock”), from Proto-Indo-European *mat- (“hoe, mattock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?s?n/
• Rhymes: -e?s?n

Noun

mason (plural masons)

1. A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick
2. One who prepares stone for building purposes.
3. A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mason (third-person singular simple present masons, present participle masoning, simple past and past participle masoned)

1. (transitive, normally with a preposition) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons

   to mason up a well or terrace

   to mason in a kettle or boiler

Translations

Anagrams

• Manso, NOMAS, Osman, manos, moans, monas, soman

Esperanto

Noun

mason

1. accusative singular of maso

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

Unknown

Noun

mason

1. fruit of the Ziziphus jujuba (syn. Ziziphus vulgaris)

References

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

Polish

Etymology

From French maçon, from Middle French maçon (“mason”), from Old French maçon, masson, machun (“brick-layer”), from Late Latin maci?, machi? (“carpenter, brick-layer”), from a derivative of Frankish *mak?n (“to build, make, work”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with Frankish *mati (“cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *matj?, *mattukaz (“ploughshare, mattock”), from Proto-Indo-European *mat- (“hoe, mattock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.s?n/

Noun

mason m pers (feminine masonka)

1. mason, Freemason

   Synonym: wolnomularz

Declension

Further reading

• mason in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• mason in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French maçon

Noun

mason m (plural masoni)

1. freemason

Declension

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

Unknown

Noun

mason

1. fruit of the Ziziphus jujuba (syn. Ziziphus vulgaris)

References

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