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Old English · noun

mere

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
strong i-stem
IPA
/ˈme.re/
Syllables
ˈme · re (2 syllables)
Modern English
merelakemarecamel

mere1 · noun · masculine

Senses

  1. lake

  2. pool

  3. sea

Declension · strong i-stem

Declension of mere
SingularPlural
Nominative meremeras
Accusative meremeras
Genitive meresmera
Dative meremerum

mere2 · noun · feminine

Senses

  1. a mare (female horse)

  2. a female camel

    Ðā menn ðe tō ðām dyrstiġe beoð þæt hī þæt gold nimen, þonne lǣdað hī mid him olfenda myran mid hyra folan ⁊ stēdan. Þā folan hī getīġað ǣr hī ofer þā ēa faran. Þæt gold hī gefǣtað on ðā myran ⁊ his sylfe onsittað ⁊ þā stēdan þǣr forlǣtað.

    Those who are bold enough to take the gold bring with them male camels and female camels with their calves. They tie up the calves before they cross over the river. They load the gold on the mares, and sit on them themselves, leave the males there.

    Wonders of the East

Declension · weak n-stem

Declension of mere
SingularPlural
Nominative meremeran
Accusative meranmeran
Genitive meranmerena
Dative meranmerum

mere3 · verb · inflected form

Senses

  1. singular imperative of merran

  2. Inflected form of merran

All forms (7)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mari (“sea, lake”). Cognates Cognate with Old Frisian mere (West Frisian mar), Old Saxon meri (Low German Meer), Dutch meer, Old High German meri (German Meer), Old Norse marr (Swedish mar). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin mare, Old Irish muir (Breton mor), Old Church Slavonic море (more) (Russian мо́ре (móre)), Lithuanian mãre.

Descendants

mere

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