different between sea vs mer

English

Etymology

From Middle English see, from Old English s? (“sea, lake”), from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (compare West Frisian see, Dutch zee, German See, Danish sø, Norwegian Bokmål sjø, Swedish sjö), probably either from Proto-Indo-European *sh?ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”) (compare Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”), Tocharian B saiwe (“itch”), Latvian sievs, s?vs (“sharp, biting”); more at sore) or derived from *s?hwan? (“to percolate, filter”), in which case *saiwiz is from earlier *saigwiz, Pre-Germanic *soyk?-ís.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?, IPA^(key): /si?/

• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: C, cee, see

• (obsolete) enPR: s?, IPA^(key): /se?/

Noun

sea (plural seas)

1. A large body of salt water.

   Synonym: (UK, nautical and navy) ogin

   1. The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
   2. A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.

2. A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.

3. The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow.
   • 2020 June 8, National Weather Service Boston, 2:38 PM EDT marine forecast

     High pressure will maintain light winds and flat seas through Tue night. ... Potential for briefly choppy 3 ft seas near South Coast...

4. (attributive, in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.

5. (figuratively) Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea.
6. (physics) A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
7. (planetology) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

8. (planetology) A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ocean

References

Further reading

• sea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• sea in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sea in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• -ase, AES, ASE, EAS, EAs, ESA, Esa, SAE, a**es, aes, ase, eas, esa

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German s?, from Old High German s?o, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (“sea, ocean”). Cognate with German See, English sea.

Noun

sea m

1. (Luserna) lake

References

• “sea” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

Noun

sea

1. genitive singular of siga

Garo

Verb

sea

1. to write

Derived terms

• segipa

Irish

Alternative forms

• seadh (superseded)

Etymology

is + ea (literally, "it is")

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a/

Adverb

sea

1. yes (to copula questions)
2. right, well (topic introducer)

Usage notes

This is a contraction of an affirmative response to a question, and is found in response to questions where the key verb is is or a present tense form thereof:

Q: An féidir leat cuidiú liom? — "Can you help me?" (literally, "Possible for you to help me?")

A: Sea. — "Yes."

Informally it may also be found as the answer to a question with a main verb, though this is considered incorrect. The standard response to such a question is to repeat the verb:

Q: Ar chuala tú mé? — "Did you hear me?"

A: Chuala. — "Yes" (literally, "Heard") or informally Sea.

Antonyms

• ní hea
• nach ea

Middle English

Noun

sea

1. Alternative form of see (“sea”)

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German s?, from Old High German s?o, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (“sea, ocean”). Cognate with German See, English sea.

Noun

sea m

1. lake

References

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

Old Irish

Determiner

sea

1. Alternative spelling of so

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• s?a

Etymology

From Old Norse séa (West Norse sjá), from Proto-Germanic *sehwan?.

Verb

s?a

1. to see

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: se, sia

Plautdietsch

Adverb

sea

1. very, intensely

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sea/, [?se.a]

Verb

sea

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of ser.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of ser.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of ser.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of ser.

See also

• maldita sea
• o sea

Wolio

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *s?j?m.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sea/

Noun

sea

1. ant

References

• Anceaux, Johannes C. 1987. Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia). Dordrecht: Foris.

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