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mere

Pronunciation: /ˈme.re/

“mere” is an Old English word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. lake
  2. pool
  3. sea
  4. a mare (female horse)
  5. a female camel

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mari (“sea, lake”). Cognates Cognate with Old Frisian mere (West Frisian mar), Old Saxon meri (Low German Meer), Dutch meer, Old High German meri (German Meer), Old Norse marr (Swedish mar). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin mare, Old Irish muir (Breton mor), Old Church Slavonic море (more) (Russian мо́ре (móre)), Lithuanian mãre.

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