mer

Faroese

/meːɹ/

noun

Definitions

mare, female horse

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse merr (mare, female horse) inherited from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (female horse, mare).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*marhijō

Gloss

female horse, mare

Concept

Semantic Field

Animals

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*mark- Proto-Indo-European
merr Norwegian Bokmål
*marhijō Proto-Germanic
märr Swedish
merr Norwegian Nynorsk
mīere Old English
fylmerr Old Norse
merr Old Norse
mær Danish
meri Icelandic
meriha Old High German
*marhijā gmw-pro
*meria Old Dutch
marr Westrobothnian
merie Old Frisian