meer
English
Etymology 1
See mere.
Noun
meer (plural meers)
Etymology 2
Adjective
meer (comparative meerer, superlative meerest)
- Obsolete form of mere.
- (Can we date this quote by John Enty and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- For, is this more contrary to Scripture […] than 'tis to say, that our blessed Saviour is a meer Man […]
- (Can we date this quote by Isaac Watts and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- And so we may have an ever-growing Idea of infinite Number as well as infinite Space or Emptiness, yet it is a meer Idea, and hath no real Existence without us.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “meer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Etymology
From Dutch meer, from Middle Dutch mēre, from Old Dutch meri, from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
Noun
meer (plural mere)
Synonyms
Alemannic German
Etymology
From Old High German mēro, from Proto-Germanic *maizô. Compare German mehr, Dutch meer, Saterland Frisian moor, English more, Icelandic meira, Swedish mera, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌶𐌰 (maiza).
Adverb
meer
References
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 64.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch mēre, from Old Dutch meri, from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
Noun
meer n (plural meren, diminutive meertje n)
Derived terms
- binnenmeer
- Haarlemmermeer
- IJsselmeer
- Ketelmeer
- kunstmeer
- kustmeer
- Markermeer
- meerkat
- meerkoet
- meerman
- meermin
- strandmeer
- stuwmeer
Descendants
- Afrikaans: meer
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch mêre, from Old Dutch *mēro, from Proto-Germanic *maizô.
Determiner
meer
- comparative degree of veel; more.
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 3
From Middle Dutch mêer, from Old Dutch mēr. This form stood alongside the older Middle Dutch mêe, from Old Dutch *mē, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.
Adverb
meer
Hunsrik
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle High German wir, from Old High German wir, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, *wiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy-, plural of *éǵh₂. Compare German wir, Pennsylvania German mer, Yiddish מיר (mir), English we.
Pronoun
meer
Inflection
nominative | accusative | dative | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
Etymology 2
From Middle High German mir (“me”), from Old High German mir (“me”), from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”). Cognate with Old English mē (“me”).
Pronoun
meer
- stressed dative of ich.
Inflection
nominative | accusative | dative | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) meer
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From earlier mêe, modified by analogy with the adjective mêre.
Adverb
mêer
- Alternative form of mêe
Further reading
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “meer (IX)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page IX
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