merr
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
See Albanian marr (“to take”).
Verb edit
merr (aorist móra, participle márrë)
- second-person singular active present indicative of marr ((you) take)
- Si? Ti merr drogë? ― What? You take drugs?
- second-person singular active present imperative of marr (Take!)
- third-person singular active present indicative of marr ((it) takes)
Northern Kurdish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
merr f
- Alternative form of mer
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse merr, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”).
Noun edit
merr f or m (definite singular merra or merren, indefinite plural merrer, definite plural merrene)
- mare (adult female horse)
- (derogatory) bitch
Synonyms edit
- hoppe (mare)
References edit
- “merr” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse merr, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”).
Noun edit
merr f (definite singular merra, indefinite plural merrar or merrer, definite plural merrane or merrene)
- mare (adult female horse)
- Synonym: hoppe
- (derogatory) bitch
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
merr (singular and plural merr)
- Eye dialect spelling of meir.
Adverb edit
merr
- Eye dialect spelling of meir.
References edit
- “merr” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”). Compare Old English mere, miere (English mare), Old Frisian merie (West Frisian merje), Dutch merrie, Old High German meriha (German Mähre).
Noun edit
merr f (genitive merar, dative meri, plural merar)
Declension edit
Declension of merr (strong ijō-stem)
Related terms edit
- marr (“horse”)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: meri
- Faroese: mer
- Norwegian Bokmål: merr
- Norwegian Nynorsk: merr
- Jamtish: már
- Old Swedish: mær
- Swedish: märr
- Danish: mær
References edit
- “merr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press