Old English · noun

missere

Part of speech: noun, neuter
Declension: strong ja-stem
IPA: /ˈmis.se.re/
Syllables: ˈmis · se · re (3 syllables)
Modern English: half-year

Meaning

half-year

Sona þæt onfunde, se ðe floda begong heorogifre beheold hund missera.

At once he found her, who had guarded the water's realm ravenously for a hundred half-years. (Beowulf, ll. 1498-9)

Declension

Declension of missere
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	missere	misseru
Accusative	missere	misseru
Genitive	misseres	missera
Dative	missere	misserum

Etymology

Cognate with Old Norse misseri (“a season (of six months)”). Possibly related to mæl from Proto-Germanic *mēlą (“measure, time, occasion”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European root *meh₁- (“to measure”).

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