moor
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /moː/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /moː/, [möː(ə̯)~mʊ̈ː(ə̯)]
- (Received Pronunciation)
- (cure–force merger) IPA(key): /mɔː/
- (cure–force distinction) IPA(key): /mʊə/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US)
- (cure–force merger) IPA(key): /mɔɹ/
- (cure–force distinction) IPA(key): /mʊ(ə)ɹ/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: Moore (all accents), more (cure–force merger), maw (most non-rhotic accents with cure–force merger), mooer (some accents)
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.
Noun[edit]
moor (plural moors)
- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
- A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
- In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall:
- the ruins yet resting in the wild moors
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *mārian, from Proto-West Germanic *mairōn (“to moor, fasten to”), related to *maida- (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *mēyt-, *meyt-, from *mēy-, *mey- (“stake, pole”). Cognate with Dutch meren (“to moor”), marren (“to bind”).
Verb[edit]
moor (third-person singular simple present moors, present participle mooring, simple past and past participle moored)
- (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
- (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
- the vessel was moored in the stream
- they moored the boat to the wharf.
- (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
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Further reading[edit]
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “mairja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Anagrams[edit]
Afrikaans[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch moorden, from Middle Dutch morden.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
moor (present moor, present participle moordende, past participle gemoor)
- (intransitive) to murder
Related terms[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Moor (“member of a North African people”, became synonymous with “Saracen”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
moor m (plural moren, diminutive moortje n)
- Something black, notably a black horse
- A whistling kettle, used to boil water in, as for tea or coffee
Synonyms[edit]
- (kettle): fluitketel
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Negerhollands: Moor
Anagrams[edit]
Estonian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
moor (genitive moori, partitive moori)
- (pejorative) an elderly woman; a crone
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |
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nominative | moor | moorid |
genitive | moori | mooride |
partitive | moori | moore / moorisid |
illative | moori / moorisse | mooridesse / mooresse |
inessive | mooris | moorides / moores |
elative | moorist | mooridest / moorest |
allative | moorile | mooridele / moorele |
adessive | mooril | mooridel / moorel |
ablative | moorilt | mooridelt / moorelt |
translative | mooriks | moorideks / mooreks |
terminative | moorini | moorideni |
essive | moorina | mooridena |
abessive | moorita | moorideta |
comitative | mooriga | mooridega |
Saterland Frisian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Frisian māra, from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō. Cognates include West Frisian mear and German mehr.
Pronunciation[edit]
Determiner[edit]
moor
Pronoun[edit]
moor
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