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mer

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Meru.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Meru terms

mer (plural mers)

1. (chemistry) A repeat unit: a structural unit which through repetition forms a polymer.
   • 2010, Mikell P. Groover, Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing (4th Edition), page 9:

     A polymer is a compound formed of repeating structural units called mers, whose atoms share electrons to form very large molecules.

mer pl (plural only)

1. (fantasy) merpeople
   • 2013, Missy Fleming, Into the Deep, page 65:

     There are mermaids and mermen everywhere. They swim above us and linger in nooks and arched doorways. It's impossible not to stare. The mer are as diverse as humans—all ages, size, shape, and color.

See mayor.

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mer (plural mers)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of mayor and mair.

• EMR, ERM, MRE, R.E.M., REM, Rem, erm, rem

• meru

From Late Latin mēlum, from Latin mālum. Compare Daco-Romanian măr.

mer n (plural meari/meare)

1. apple

• mirush

From Vulgar Latin *mēlus, from Latin mālus.

mer m (plural meri)

1. apple tree

• agrumer
• miric

Borrowed from Latin merus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmer]

mer (feminine mera, masculine plural mers, feminine plural meres)

1. mere, simple

• merament

• “mer”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Old Cornish mair, from Proto-Brythonic *maɨr, from Latin maior (“greater”). Cognate with Breton and Welsh maer.

mer m (plural meryon)

1. mayor

From Proto-Brythonic *mer, from Proto-Celtic *smerus. Cognate with Breton mel, Irish and Scottish Gaelic smior, Manx smuirr, and Welsh mêr.

mer m

1. (uncountable) bone marrow

From Old Norse merr, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō.

• IPA^(key): /meːɹ/
• Rhymes: -eːɹ

mer f (genitive singular merar, plural merar)

1. mare, female horse

   Synonym: ryssa

Inherited from Middle French mer, from Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

The word is almost unparalleled as a Latin neuter that has become feminine without being a backformation from a plural in -a (French -e). This has been ascribed to the influence of terre (“land”). In most other Romance languages it is a masculine, the main exception being Romanian mare f.

• IPA^(key): /mɛʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁ
• Homophones: maire, maires, mère, mères, mers

mer f (plural mers)

1. (countable) sea (large body of water)
   • 2018, Zaz, J'aime, j'aime:

     J'aime, j'aime, j'aime la solitude parfois. mais j'aime pas les cris quand ils ne s'arrêtent pas, quand les émotions me plongent en mer enragée, quand le manque de moi me fait divaguer.

     I love, I love, I sometimes love the loneliness/solitude. But I don't love the crying [cries] when it [they] won't stop, when the emotions plunge me into the enraged sea, when the absence of myself makes me wander.

2. (uncountable, used with the definite article) the ocean (the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface)

   Synonym: océan

• marin
• marine

• Antillean Creole: lanmè
• Haitian Creole: lanmè
• → Volapük: mel

• “mer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛr]

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• Rhymes: -ɛr

From Proto-Ugric *märɜ- (“to believe, have faith in dare”).^[1]

mer

2. (auxiliary with an infinitive) to dare (to have the courage to do something)

   Nem merek bemenni. ― I don’t dare to enter / I daren’t enter.

From Proto-Ugric *märɜ- (“to dive, plunge”).^[2]

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)

(With verbal prefixes):

• Category:Hungarian auxiliary verbs

• (to dare): mer in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (to ladle): mer in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /mɐ/

mer

1. unstressed dative of ich.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Borrowed from German Low German mär.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɛr
• Syllabification: mer

mer (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

1. soft; flabby, pliable, flexible

mer (not comparable)

1. softly, supplely, pliably

• “mer”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

• mie'r, meŕ (Courland)

From Proto-Finnic *meri. Akin to Finnish meri.

• IPA^(key): /mer/

me'r

1. sea

From Proto-Loloish *mo² (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosu ꂿꃅ (mo mu).

• IPA^(key): [mɯ²¹]

mer 

1. (Yao'an) sky, heaven

• IPA^(key): /mɐ/

mer

1. unstressed form of mir

• mier

From Vulgar Latin *mēlus, from Latin mālus.^[1] Compare Romanian măr.

mer m

1. apple tree

• Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske

Inherited from Old French mer, from Latin mare.

mer f (plural mers)

1. sea (large body of water)

• marin

• French: mer

From Old High German meri, from Proto-West Germanic *mari, from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri, possibly from *mer-.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈmer/

mer n

1. sea

• Alemannic German: Meer
• Bavarian:
  • Mòcheno: meir
• Central Franconian:
  • Hunsrik: Meer
  • Luxembourgish: Mier
• German: Meer
• Yiddish: מער (mer)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “mer”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "mer" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

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.

mer

1. dative of i: me, to me

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

• IPA^(key): /mɛɾ/

mer f

1. spade (a garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging)

• mere

From Old Norse meiri.

mer

1. comparative degree of mye

mer

1. more; used in forming the comparative form of long/foreign adjectives

• mer eller mindre

• meir (Nynorsk)

• “mer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Inherited from Latin mare.

mer oblique singular, f (oblique plural mers, nominative singular mer, nominative plural mers)

1. sea (large body of water)

• marin

• French: mer
  • Antillean Creole: lanmè
  • Haitian Creole: lanmè
  • → Volapük: mel
• Norman: mé (Jersey)
• Walloon: mer

From Proto-Germanic *maiz.

mēr

1. more

Cognate to German wir, mir.

mer

1. we, first person plural nominative pronoun.

• mir

Cognate to German mir.

mer

1. dative of ich: me, to me

• mir

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mer

1. one, indefinite third person singular nominative pronoun.

• Kate Burridge, Changes with Pennsylvania German, in Ethnosyntax (2002), page 226: mer saage nett […] (we don't say […] )

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛr/

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• Rhymes: -ɛr
• Syllabification: mer

Borrowed from French maire. Doublet of major.

mer m pers

1. mayor (in France and other countries, the chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, etc.)

Borrowed from English mer, from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros).

mer m inan

1. (chemistry) mer, repeat unit

• mer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• mar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)

From Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

mer m (plural mers)

1. (Puter) sea

From Old Swedish mēr, from Old Norse meir, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.

• IPA^(key): /meːr/

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mer

1. Comparative form of mycket, used in construction of comparative form of certain adjectives; more.

• mer in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• mer in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• rem

From Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

• IPA^(key): /meʀ/

mer ? (plural mers)

1. sea

mer

1. nasal mutation of ber (“short”)