mare – English noun declension

English noun forms of mare

Noun: mare
Singularmare
Pluralmares; maria

Sample Sentences

  • But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…]. [1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we? [2007, Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English mare, meare, meir, mer, mere, meyre, mure, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *márkos (“horse”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Scots mere (“mare”), Saterland Frisian Märe (“mare”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), German Mähre (“female horse”), Danish mær (“old mare”), Faroese mer (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk merr (“mare”), Swedish mæhr, mær, mähr, märr (“mare”); also Breton marc'h (“horse”), Cornish margh (“horse”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic marc (“horse”), Welsh march (“horse”). See: Middle English Nouns 'mare', Old English Nouns 'mīere', Dutch Nouns 'merrie', German Nouns 'Mähre', Danish Nouns 'mær', Faroese Nouns 'mer', Icelandic Nouns 'meri'.

Verbs referencing "mare"

English Nouns marshal, Danish Nouns mær, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns muru, Polish Nouns mara, Old Norse Nouns merr, French Nouns cauchemar, Dutch Nouns merrie.