mer
French
noun
Definitions
- sea large body of water
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French mer inherited from Old French mer inherited from Latin mare (sea) inherited from Proto-Italic *mari inherited from Proto-Indo-European *móri (sea, lake, body of water, standing water).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*móri
Gloss
sea, lake, body of water, standing water
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
海
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Morava English
- marigraph English
- marograph English
- *mara Latin
- Marica Latin
- Marus Latin
- mare Latin
- marinus Latin
- marīnus Latin
- mare Italian
- Caspienne French
- bras French
- bras de mer French
- de French
- marée French
- mer Caspienne French
- mar Spanish, Castilian
- *móri Proto-Indo-European
- *mari Proto-Germanic
- *marikaz Proto-Germanic
- *mōraz Proto-Germanic
- *moře Proto-Slavic
- mer Old French
- maro Esperanto
- gel Old Irish
- mer Middle French
- mar Old Portuguese
- *meri Proto-Finnic
- *mori Proto-Celtic
- *maryáHdaH Proto-Indo-Iranian
- amari Aromanian
- *mari Proto-Italic
- mar Romansh
- mer Romansh
- mar Asturian
- mâr Friulian
- mar Old Occitan
- mari Sicilian
- mar Venetian
- mel Volapük
- melan Volapük
- mâ Ligurian
- mur Dalmatian
- lamer Mauritian Creole
- mer Walloon
- mar Bourguignon
- mari Sardinian
- mare Neapolitan
- mare Istriot
- mare Corsican
- lanmer Seychellois Creole
- måre Istro-Romanian
- mêr Romagnol