merr
Albanian
Verb
merr
Kurdish
Pronunciation
Noun
- spade (a garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse merr, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”).
Noun
merr f or m (definite singular merra or merren, indefinite plural merrer, definite plural merrene)
- mare (adult female horse)
- (derogatory) bitch
Synonyms
- hoppe (mare)
References
- “merr” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse merr, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”).
Noun
merr f (definite singular merra, indefinite plural merrar or merrer, definite plural merrane or merrene)
- mare (adult female horse)
- (derogatory) bitch
Synonyms
- hoppe (mare)
References
- “merr” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Etymology
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
merr f (genitive merar, dative meri, plural merar)
- mare (adult female horse)
Declension
Declension of merr (strong ijō-stem)
Related terms
- marr "horse"
Descendants
- Icelandic: meri
- Faroese: mer
- Norwegian: merr
- Old Swedish: mær
- Swedish: märr
- Danish: mær
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References
- “merr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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- Norwegian Bokmål nouns with multiple genders
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- nb:Animals
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- non:Horses