different between moor vs wilderness

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 wildernes, wildernesse (“uninhabited, uncultivated, or wild territory; desolate land; desert; (figuratively) depopulated or devastated place; state of devastation or ruin; human experience and life”) [and other forms], and then either:

• from Middle English wilderne (“deserted or uninhabited place, wilderness; land not yet settled”) [and other forms] (from Old English wildde?ren (“savage, wild”); see below) + -nes, -nesse (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting qualities or states); or
• from Old English *wild?ornes, *wildd?ornes, probably from wildd?or (“wild animal”) [and other forms] or more likely from wildde?ren (“savage, wild”) (from wildd?or + -en (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘consisting of; material made of’)) + -nes (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting qualities or states).

Wildd?or is derived from wilde (“savage, wild”) (ultimately either from Proto-Indo-European *wel-, *welw- (“hair, wool; ear of corn, grass; forest”), or *g??el- (“wild”)) + d?or (“beast, wild animal”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?wes- (“to breathe; breath; soul, spirit; creature”)).

The English word is cognate with Danish vildnis (“wilderness”), German Wildernis, Wildnis (“wilderness”), Middle Dutch wildernisse (“wilderness”) (modern Dutch wildernis (“wilderness”)), Middle Low German wildernisse (“wilderness”) (German Low German Wildernis (“wilderness”)), Saterland Frisian Wüüldernis (“wilderness”), West Frisian wyldernis (“wilderness”).

Sense 3.3 (“situation of disfavour or lack of recognition”) is a reference to Numbers 14:32–33 in the Bible (King James Version; spelling modernized): “But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.”

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?ld?n?s/, /-n?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?ld?n?s/
• Hyphenation: wild?er?ness

Noun

wilderness (countable and uncountable, plural wildernesses)

1. (uncountable) Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.

   Synonyms: (chiefly Australia) bushland, wasteness, (both obsolete) wastness, wildland, wilds
2. (by extension)
   1. (countable) A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.
   2. (countable, horticulture) An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.
   3. (uncountable, obsolete) Unrefinedness; wildness.
3. (countable, figuratively)
   1. Chiefly followed by of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things.
   2. A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.
   3. Often preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition; (specifically, politics) of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.

Alternative forms

• wildernesse (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• wilderness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia