mer

mer (plural mers)

1. (chemistry) A repeat unit: a structural unit which through repetition forms a polymer.
   • 2010, Mikell P. Groover, Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing (4th Edition), page 9:

     A polymer is a compound formed of repeating structural units called mers, whose atoms share electrons to form very large molecules.

mer pl (plural only)

1. (fantasy) merpeople
   • 2013, Missy Fleming, Into the Deep (page 65)

     There are mermaids and mermen everywhere. They swim above us and linger in nooks and arched doorways. It's impossible not to stare. The mer are as diverse as humans—all ages, size, shape, and color.

• EMR, ERM, MRE, R.E.M., REM, Rem, erm, rem

• meru

From Vulgar Latin *melum, from Latin mālum. Compare Daco-Romanian măr.

mer n (plural meari/meare)

1. apple

• mirush

From Vulgar Latin *melus, from Latin mālus.

mer m (plural meri)

1. apple tree

• agrumer
• miric

From Latin merus.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmer/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɾ/

mer (feminine mera, masculine plural mers, feminine plural meres)

1. mere, simple

• merament

• “mer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old Norse merr, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō.

• IPA^(key): /meːɹ/
• Rhymes: -eːɹ

mer f (genitive singular merar, plural merar)

1. mare, female horse

• (mare): ryssa

From Middle French mer, from Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

• IPA^(key): /mɛʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁ
• Homophones: maire, maires, mère, Mère, mères, mers

mer f (plural mers)

1. sea (large body of water)

• marin
• marine

• “mer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛr]

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mer

1. (transitive) to dare (to have courage to do something)
2. (transitive) to ladle (to get some liquid or grainy substance out of somewhere by turning in a bowl-shaped object and let it fill)

• mereng
• merész
• merít
• merül

(Expressions):

• aki mer, az nyer

• IPA^(key): /mɐ/

mer

1. unstressed dative of ich.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

• mie'r, meŕ (Courland)

From Proto-Finnic *meri. Akin to Finnish meri.

mer

1. sea

• IPA^(key): /mɐ/

mer

1. unstressed form of mir

From Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

mer f (plural mers)

1. sea (large body of water)

• marin

• French: mer

• mere

From Old Norse meiri.

mer

1. comparative of mye

mer

1. more; used in forming the comparative form of long/foreign adjectives

• mer eller mindre

• meir (Nynorsk)

• “mer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

mer f (oblique plural mers, nominative singular mer, nominative plural mers)

1. sea (large body of water)

• marin

• French: mer
  • Antillean Creole: lanmè
  • Haitian Creole: lanmè
  • Volapük: mel
• Norman: mé (Jersey)
• Walloon: mer

From Proto-Germanic *batiz.

mēr

1. more

Cognate to German wir, mir.

mer

1. we, first person plural nominative pronoun.

• mir

Cognate to German mir.

mer

1. me, to me, first person singular dative pronoun.

• mir

mer

1. one, indefinite third person singular nominative pronoun.

• Kate Burridge, Changes with Pennsylvania German, in Ethnosyntax (2002), page 226: mer saage nett […] (we don't say […] )

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) mar

From Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

mer m (plural mers)

1. (Puter) sea

From Old Norse meir, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.

• IPA^(key): /meːr/

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mer

1. Comparative form of mycket, used in construction of comparative form of certain adjectives; more,

From Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

mer ? (plural mers)

1. sea

mer

1. Nasal mutation of ber (“short”).