meyr
Icelandic
/meiːr/
adj
Definitions
- tender (of meat, etc.)
- sensitive, sentimental
- decayed
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse meyrr inherited from Proto-Germanic *marwaz (mellow).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*marwaz
Gloss
mellow
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mellow English
- melloweth English
- mellowish English
- mellowly English
- mellowness English
- mellowspeak English
- mellowy English
- overmellow English
- unmellow English
- *mer(w)- Proto-Indo-European
- *merw- Proto-Indo-European
- mør Norwegian Bokmål
- *marwaz Proto-Germanic
- mör Swedish
- mør Norwegian Nynorsk
- meru Old English
- melowe Middle English
- meyrr Old Norse
- murwe Middle Dutch
- murwi Old High German
- moyrur Faroese
- murw Alemannic German
- mør Old Danish