Noun: mer
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | mer |
| Plural f | mers |
countable and uncountable
Sample Sentences
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J'aime, j'aime, j'aime la solitude parfois. mais j'aime pas les cris quand ils ne s'arrêtent pas, quand les émotions me plongent en mer enragée, quand le manque de moi me fait divaguer. (I love, I love, I sometimes love the loneliness/solitude. But I don't love the crying [cries] when it [they] won't stop, when the emotions plunge me into the enraged sea, when the absence of myself makes me wander.) [2018, Zaz, J'aime, j'aime:]
Nouns inflected like mer
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *mer-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *móri
4. Proto-Italic *mari
5. Latin mare
6. Old French mer
7. Middle French mer
8. French mer
9. Inherited from Middle French mer, from Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
10. The word is almost unparalleled as a Latin neuter that has become feminine without being a backformation from a plural in -a (French -e). This has been ascribed to the influence of terre (“land”). In most other Romance languages it is a masculine, the main exception being Romanian mare f. See: Latin Nouns '
mare', Romanian Nouns '
mare'.
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