mert

See also: Mert and mért

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin meritum.

Noun

mert m (plural merts)

  1. merit

Hungarian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛrt]
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  • Hyphenation: mert

Etymology 1

Shortened from meret, an obsolete variant of miért (“why”).[1]

Conjunction

mert

  1. because
Derived terms

Etymology 2

mer +‎ -t

Verb

mert

  1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of mer
  2. past participle of mer

References
  1. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6
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