Old English · noun
mor
Normalised mōr
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /moːr/
- Syllables
- moːr (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- moormarshwilderness
Meaning
-
marsh, wilderness, moor
On þǣm mōrum eardiað Finnas; and þæt bȳne land is ēasteweard brādost, and symle swā norðor swā smælre. Ēastewerd hit mæġ bīon syxtiġ mīla brād, oþþe hwēne brǣdre; and middeweard þritiġ oððe brādre; and norðeweard, hē cwæð, þǣr hit smalost wǣre, þæt hit mihte bēon þrēora mīla brād tō þǣm mōre; and sē mōr syðþan, on sumum stōwum, swā brād swā man mæġ on twām wucum ofe
Finns dwell on the moors; and that inhabited land is widest in the east, and always smaller farther north. In the east it can be sixty miles wide, or a bit wider; and in the middle, thirty miles or broader; and in the north, he said, where it was smallest, it might be three miles across to the moor; and the moor, in some places, is as wide as a man can cross in two weeks; and in some places, as br
Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan -
mountain
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *mōr. Cognate with Old Saxon mōr (Dutch moer), Middle Low German mōr (German Moor), Old High German muor, Old Norse mǫr.
Descendants
moor
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