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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

  1. 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
  2. mountain

Declension

Declension of mor
SingularPlural
Nominative mōrmōras
Accusative mōrmōras
Genitive mōresmōra
Dative mōremōrum

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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