mer
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
mer (plural mers)
- (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.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
mer pl (plural only)
- (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.
Etymology 3 edit
See mayor.
Noun edit
mer (plural mers)
Anagrams edit
Aromanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Late Latin mēlum, from Latin mālum. Compare Daco-Romanian măr.
Noun edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Vulgar Latin *mēlus, from Latin mālus.
Noun edit
mer m (plural meri)
Derived terms edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
mer (feminine mera, masculine plural mers, feminine plural meres)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “mer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Faroese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse merr, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mer f (genitive singular merar, plural merar)
Declension edit
f6 | Singular | Plural | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | mer | merin | merar | merarnar |
Accusative | mer | merina | merar | merarnar |
Dative | mer | merini | merum | merunum |
Genitive | merar | merarinnar | mera | meranna |
French edit
Etymology edit
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.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /mɛʁ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) Audio (CAN) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛʁ
- Homophones: maire, maires, mère, mères, mers
Noun edit
mer f (plural mers)
- (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.
- (uncountable, used with the definite article) the ocean (the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface)
- Synonym: océan
Derived terms edit
- anémone de mer
- araignée de mer
- armée de mer
- bouteille à la mer
- bras de mer
- cardon de mer
- cigale de mer
- cochon de mer
- concombre de mer
- eau de mer
- écume de mer
- éléphant de mer
- étoile de mer
- fruit de mer
- haute mer
- hérisson de mer
- léopard de mer
- lis de mer
- loup de mer
- loutre de mer
- mal de mer
- mer Adriatique
- mer Baltique
- mer Blanche
- mer Caspienne
- mer de Barents
- mer de Chine méridionale
- mer de Chine orientale
- mer de Marmara
- mer de Myrto
- mer des Caraïbes
- mer du Japon
- mer du Nord
- mer d’Arabie
- mer d’Aral
- mer d’Azov
- mer d’huile
- mer d’Irlande
- mer d’Iroise
- mer Égée
- mer Ionienne
- mer Jaune
- mer Méditerranée
- mer Morte
- mer Noire
- mer Rouge
- mer Tyrrhénienne
- ne pas être la mer à boire
- niveau de la mer
- oreille de mer
- panicaut de mer
- perche de mer
- prendre la mer
- serpent de mer
- vache de mer
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “mer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Ugric *märɜ- (“to believe, have faith in dare”).[1]
Verb edit
mer
- (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.
Conjugation edit
Click for archaic forms | 1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | merek | mersz | mer | merünk | mertek | mernek | |
Def. | merem | mered | meri | merjük | meritek | merik | |||
2nd-p. o. | merlek | ― | |||||||
Past | Indef. | mertem | mertél | mert | mertünk | mertetek | mertek | ||
Def. | mertem | merted | merte | mertük | mertétek | merték | |||
2nd-p. o. | mertelek | ― | |||||||
Future | Future is expressed with a present-tense verb with a completion-marking prefix and/or a time adverb, or—more explicitly—with the infinitive plus the conjugated auxiliary verb fog, e.g. merni fog. | ||||||||
Archaic Preterit |
Indef. | merék | merél | mere | merénk | merétek | merének | ||
Def. | merém | meréd | meré | merénk | merétek | merék | |||
2nd-p. o. | merélek | ― | |||||||
Archaic Past | Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala (volt), e.g. mer vala, mert vala/volt. | ||||||||
Archaic Future |
Indef. | merendek | merendesz | merend | merendünk | merendetek | merendenek | ||
Def. | merendem | merended | merendi | merendjük | merenditek | merendik | |||
2nd-p. o. | merendelek | ― | |||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | mernék | mernél | merne | mernénk | mernétek | mernének | |
Def. | merném | mernéd | merné | mernénk (or mernők) |
mernétek | mernék | |||
2nd-p. o. | mernélek | ― | |||||||
Past | Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. mert volna | ||||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | merjek | merj or merjél |
merjen | merjünk | merjetek | merjenek | |
Def. | merjem | merd or merjed |
merje | merjük | merjétek | merjék | |||
2nd-p. o. | merjelek | ― | |||||||
(Archaic) Past | Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. mert légyen | ||||||||
Infinitive | merni | mernem | merned | mernie | mernünk | mernetek | merniük | ||
Other forms |
Verbal noun | Present part. | Past part. | Future part. | Adverbial participle | Causative | |||
merés | merő | mert | merendő | merve (mervén) | |||||
The archaic passive conjugation had the same -(t)at/-(t)et suffix as the causative, followed by -ik in the 3rd-person singular (and the concomitant changes in conditional and subjunctive mostly in the 1st- and 3rd-person singular like with other traditional -ik verbs). | |||||||||
Click for archaic forms | 1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | merhetek | merhetsz | merhet | merhetünk | merhettek | merhetnek | |
Def. | merhetem | merheted | merheti | merhetjük | merhetitek | merhetik | |||
2nd-p. o. | merhetlek | ― | |||||||
Past | Indef. | merhettem | merhettél | merhetett | merhettünk | merhettetek | merhettek | ||
Def. | merhettem | merhetted | merhette | merhettük | merhettétek | merhették | |||
2nd-p. o. | merhettelek | ― | |||||||
Archaic Preterit |
Indef. | merheték | merhetél | merhete | merheténk | merhetétek | merhetének | ||
Def. | merhetém | merhetéd | merheté | merheténk | merhetétek | merheték | |||
2nd-p. o. | merhetélek | ― | |||||||
Archaic Past | Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala, e.g. merhet vala, merhetett vala/volt. | ||||||||
Archaic Future |
Indef. | merhetendek or merandhatok |
merhetendesz or merandhatsz |
merhetend or merandhat |
merhetendünk or merandhatunk |
merhetendetek or merandhattok |
merhetendenek or merandhatnak | ||
Def. | merhetendem or merandhatom |
merhetended or merandhatod |
merhetendi or merandhatja |
merhetendjük or merandhatjuk |
merhetenditek or merandhatjátok |
merhetendik or merandhatják | |||
2nd-p. o. | merhetendelek or merandhatlak |
― | |||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | merhetnék | merhetnél | merhetne | merhetnénk | merhetnétek | merhetnének | |
Def. | merhetném | merhetnéd | merhetné | merhetnénk (or merhetnők) |
merhetnétek | merhetnék | |||
2nd-p. o. | merhetnélek | ― | |||||||
Past | Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. merhetett volna | ||||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | merhessek | merhess or merhessél |
merhessen | merhessünk | merhessetek | merhessenek | |
Def. | merhessem | merhesd or merhessed |
merhesse | merhessük | merhessétek | merhessék | |||
2nd-p. o. | merhesselek | ― | |||||||
(Archaic) Past | Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. merhetett légyen | ||||||||
Inf. | (merhetni) | (merhetnem) | (merhetned) | (merhetnie) | (merhetnünk) | (merhetnetek) | (merhetniük) | ||
Positive adjective | merhető | Neg. adj. | merhetetlen | Adv. part. | (merhetve / merhetvén) | ||||
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Ugric *märɜ- (“to dive, plunge”).[2]
Verb edit
mer
- (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)
Conjugation edit
Click for archaic forms | 1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | merek | mersz | mer | merünk | mertek | mernek | |
Def. | merem | mered | meri | merjük | meritek | merik | |||
2nd-p. o. | merlek | ― | |||||||
Past | Indef. | mertem | mertél | mert | mertünk | mertetek | mertek | ||
Def. | mertem | merted | merte | mertük | mertétek | merték | |||
2nd-p. o. | mertelek | ― | |||||||
Future | Future is expressed with a present-tense verb with a completion-marking prefix and/or a time adverb, or—more explicitly—with the infinitive plus the conjugated auxiliary verb fog, e.g. merni fog. | ||||||||
Archaic Preterit |
Indef. | merék | merél | mere | merénk | merétek | merének | ||
Def. | merém | meréd | meré | merénk | merétek | merék | |||
2nd-p. o. | merélek | ― | |||||||
Archaic Past | Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala (volt), e.g. mer vala, mert vala/volt. | ||||||||
Archaic Future |
Indef. | merendek | merendesz | merend | merendünk | merendetek | merendenek | ||
Def. | merendem | merended | merendi | merendjük | merenditek | merendik | |||
2nd-p. o. | merendelek | ― | |||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | mernék | mernél | merne | mernénk | mernétek | mernének | |
Def. | merném | mernéd | merné | mernénk (or mernők) |
mernétek | mernék | |||
2nd-p. o. | mernélek | ― | |||||||
Past | Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. mert volna | ||||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | merjek | merj or merjél |
merjen | merjünk | merjetek | merjenek | |
Def. | merjem | merd or merjed |
merje | merjük | merjétek | merjék | |||
2nd-p. o. | merjelek | ― | |||||||
(Archaic) Past | Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. mert légyen | ||||||||
Infinitive | merni | mernem | merned | mernie | mernünk | mernetek | merniük | ||
Other forms |
Verbal noun | Present part. | Past part. | Future part. | Adverbial participle | Causative | |||
merés | merő | mert | merendő | merve (mervén) | |||||
The archaic passive conjugation had the same -(t)at/-(t)et suffix as the causative, followed by -ik in the 3rd-person singular (and the concomitant changes in conditional and subjunctive mostly in the 1st- and 3rd-person singular like with other traditional -ik verbs). | |||||||||
Click for archaic forms | 1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | merhetek | merhetsz | merhet | merhetünk | merhettek | merhetnek | |
Def. | merhetem | merheted | merheti | merhetjük | merhetitek | merhetik | |||
2nd-p. o. | merhetlek | ― | |||||||
Past | Indef. | merhettem | merhettél | merhetett | merhettünk | merhettetek | merhettek | ||
Def. | merhettem | merhetted | merhette | merhettük | merhettétek | merhették | |||
2nd-p. o. | merhettelek | ― | |||||||
Archaic Preterit |
Indef. | merheték | merhetél | merhete | merheténk | merhetétek | merhetének | ||
Def. | merhetém | merhetéd | merheté | merheténk | merhetétek | merheték | |||
2nd-p. o. | merhetélek | ― | |||||||
Archaic Past | Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala, e.g. merhet vala, merhetett vala/volt. | ||||||||
Archaic Future |
Indef. | merhetendek or merandhatok |
merhetendesz or merandhatsz |
merhetend or merandhat |
merhetendünk or merandhatunk |
merhetendetek or merandhattok |
merhetendenek or merandhatnak | ||
Def. | merhetendem or merandhatom |
merhetended or merandhatod |
merhetendi or merandhatja |
merhetendjük or merandhatjuk |
merhetenditek or merandhatjátok |
merhetendik or merandhatják | |||
2nd-p. o. | merhetendelek or merandhatlak |
― | |||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | merhetnék | merhetnél | merhetne | merhetnénk | merhetnétek | merhetnének | |
Def. | merhetném | merhetnéd | merhetné | merhetnénk (or merhetnők) |
merhetnétek | merhetnék | |||
2nd-p. o. | merhetnélek | ― | |||||||
Past | Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. merhetett volna | ||||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | merhessek | merhess or merhessél |
merhessen | merhessünk | merhessetek | merhessenek | |
Def. | merhessem | merhesd or merhessed |
merhesse | merhessük | merhessétek | merhessék | |||
2nd-p. o. | merhesselek | ― | |||||||
(Archaic) Past | Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. merhetett légyen | ||||||||
Inf. | (merhetni) | (merhetnem) | (merhetned) | (merhetnie) | (merhetnünk) | (merhetnetek) | (merhetniük) | ||
Positive adjective | merhető | Neg. adj. | merhetetlen | Adv. part. | (merhetve / merhetvén) | ||||
Derived terms edit
(With verbal prefixes):
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Entry #1806 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ Entry #1805 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
Further reading edit
- (to dare): mer in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (to ladle): mer in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Hunsrik edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
mer
- unstressed dative of ich.
Inflection edit
nominative | accusative | dative | ||||
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Proclitic | Enclitic | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | |
1st person singular | ich | -ich | mich | meer | mer | |
2nd person singular (informal) |
du | -du, -de | dich | deer | der | |
3rd person singular (m.) | er; där | -er | ihn | en | ihm | em |
3rd person singular (f.) | sie; die | -se | sie / ihns | se | eer | re |
3rd person singular (n.) | es; das | 's | es | ihm | em | |
1st person plural | meer | mer | uns | |||
2nd person plural | deer | der | eich | |||
3rd person plural | sie; die | -se | sie | se | denne |
Further reading edit
Livonian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *meri. Akin to Finnish meri.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
me'r
Declension edit
singular (ikšlug) | plural (pǟgiņlug) | |
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nominative (nominatīv) | mer | mierūd |
genitive (genitīv) | mier | mierūd |
partitive (partitīv) | mīerda | meŗḑi |
dative (datīv) | mierrõn | mierūdõn |
instrumental (instrumentāl) | mierkõks | mierūdõks |
illative (illatīv) | mierrõ | mierīž |
inessive (inesīv) | miersõ | meŗši |
elative (elatīv) | mierstõ | meŗšti |
Derived terms edit
Lolopo edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Loloish *mo² (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosu ꂿꃅ (mo mu).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mer
Luxembourgish edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
mer
- unstressed form of mir
Declension edit
nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | ||||||
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str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | ||||
1st person singular | ech | — | mech | — | mir | mer | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (informal) |
du | de | dech | — | dir | der | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (formal) |
Dir | Der | Iech | Iech [əɕ] | Iech | Iech [əɕ] | Iech | ||
3rd person singular | m | hien | en | hien | en | him | em | sech | |
f | si | se | si | se | hir | er | sech | ||
n | hatt | et ('t) | hatt | et ('t) | him | em | sech | ||
1st person plural | mir | mer | eis (ons) | — | eis (ons) | — | eis (ons) | ||
2nd person plural | dir | der | iech | iech [əɕ] | iech | iech [əɕ] | iech | ||
3rd person plural | si | se | si | se | hinnen | en | sech |
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
Noun edit
mer f (plural mers)
- sea (large body of water)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- French: mer
Mòcheno edit
Etymology edit
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.
Pronoun edit
mer
References edit
- “mer” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Northern Kurdish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mer f
- spade (a garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
mer
Adverb edit
mer
- more; used in forming the comparative form of long/foreign adjectives
Derived terms edit
See also edit
- meir (Nynorsk)
References edit
- “mer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
Noun edit
mer oblique singular, f (oblique plural mers, nominative singular mer, nominative plural mers)
- sea (large body of water)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Old Saxon edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *maiz.
Adverb edit
mēr
Pennsylvania German edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronoun edit
mer
- we, first person plural nominative pronoun.
Declension edit
singular | plural | ||||||||
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1st person | 2nd person familiar |
2nd person polite/formal |
3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
m | f | n | |||||||
nominative | ich | du de1 |
dihr der1 Sie |
er | sie se1 |
es | mir mer1 |
dihr der1 |
sie |
dative | mir mer1 |
dir der1 |
eich Ihne Ne1 |
ihm em1 |
ihre re1 |
ihm em1 |
uns | eich | ihne ne1 |
accusative | mich | dich | eich Sie |
ihn en1 |
sie se1 |
es | sie |
1unstressed
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronoun edit
mer
Declension edit
singular | plural | ||||||||
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1st person | 2nd person familiar |
2nd person polite/formal |
3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
m | f | n | |||||||
nominative | ich | du de1 |
dihr der1 Sie |
er | sie se1 |
es | mir mer1 |
dihr der1 |
sie |
dative | mir mer1 |
dir der1 |
eich Ihne Ne1 |
ihm em1 |
ihre re1 |
ihm em1 |
uns | eich | ihne ne1 |
accusative | mich | dich | eich Sie |
ihn en1 |
sie se1 |
es | sie |
1unstressed
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 3 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronoun edit
mer
- one, indefinite third person singular nominative pronoun.
References edit
- Kate Burridge, Changes with Pennsylvania German, in Ethnosyntax (2002), page 226: mer saage nett […] (we don't say […] )
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French maire. Doublet of major.
Noun edit
mer m pers
- mayor (in France and other countries, the chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, etc.)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from English mer, from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros).
Noun edit
mer m inan
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Romansch edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
Noun edit
mer m (plural mers)
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish mēr, from Old Norse meir, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
mer
References edit
- mer in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- mer in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Anagrams edit
Walloon edit
Etymology edit
From Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mer ? (plural mers)
Welsh edit
Adjective edit
mer
- Nasal mutation of ber (“short”).
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
ber | fer | mer | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |