merr
Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See Albanian marr (“to take”).
Verb
[edit]merr
- 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)
Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]merr
- (West Riding) alternative form of merren
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]Inherited from Proto-Germanic *marhijō. 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]| feminine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | merr | merrin | merar | merarnar |
| accusative | meri | merina | merar | merarnar |
| dative | meri | merinni | merum | merunum |
| genitive | merar | merarinnar | mera | meranna |
Related terms
[edit]- marr (“horse”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “merr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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- non:Horses