merr
Albanian
Verb
merr (first-person singular past tense móra, participle márrë)
- second-person singular active present indicative of marr ((you) take)
- Si? Ti merr drogë? ― What? You take drugs?
- second-person singular active present imperative of marr (Take!)
- third-person singular active present indicative of marr ((it) takes)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse merr, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”).
Noun
merr f or m (definite singular merra or merren, indefinite plural merrer, definite plural merrene)
- mare (adult female horse)
- (derogatory) bitch
Synonyms
- hoppe (mare)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse merr, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”).
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”). Compare Old English mere, miere (English mare), Old Frisian merie (West Frisian merje), Dutch merrie, Old High German meriha (German Mähre).
Declension
Related terms
- marr (“horse”)
Descendants
References
- “merr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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