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moor
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)
- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
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- In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
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- 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)
- (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
- (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
- (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)
- (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)
- Something black, notably a black horse
- 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)
- (pejorative) an elderly woman; a crone
Declension
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian m?ra, from Proto-Germanic *maizô. More at more.
Adjective
moor
- more
Adverb
moor
- more
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wildness
English
Etymology
From Middle English wildenes, wildenesse, equivalent to wild +? -ness.
Noun
wildness (countable and uncountable, plural wildnesses)
- the quality of being wild or untamed
Translations
Anagrams
- Swindles, swindles, windless
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