meer

See also: Meer and -meer

English

Etymology 1

See mere.

Noun

meer (plural meers)

  1. A boundary.
  2. Obsolete form of mere (a lake).

Etymology 2

Adjective

meer (comparative meerer, superlative meerest)

  1. Obsolete form of mere.
    • John Enty
      For, is this more contrary to Scripture […] than 'tis to say, that our blessed Saviour is a meer Man […]
    • Isaac Watts
      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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Afrikaans

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)

  1. lake

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

  1. (Uri) more

References
  • “meer” in Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 64.

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -eːr
  • IPA(key): /meːr/, [mɪːr]
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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)

  1. lake
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch mêre, from Old Dutch *mēro, from Proto-Germanic *maizô.

Determiner

meer

  1. comparative degree of veel; more.
Derived 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

  1. anymore, any longer

Hunsrik

Alternative forms
  • mëyer, mier (Wiesemann spelling system)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmeːɐ/

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

  1. we

Inflection
Hunsrik personal pronouns
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 uns
2nd person plural deer der eich 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

  1. stressed dative of ich.

Inflection
Hunsrik personal pronouns
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 uns
2nd person plural deer der eich eich
3rd person plural sie, die -se sie se denne

Further reading

Latin

Verb

meer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of meō

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From earlier mêe, modified by analogy with the adjective mêre.

Adverb

mêer

  1. Alternative form of mêe

Further reading
  • “meer (IX)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
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