mere – Old English noun declension

Noun: mere
Gender: m f

Nominative

Singular	mere
Plural	meras; meran

Genitive

Singular	meres; meran
Plural	mera; merena

Dative

Singular	mere; meran
Plural	merum

Accusative

Singular	mere; meran
Plural	meras; meran

Sample Sentences

Wonders of the East
Ðā menn ðe tō ðām dyrstiġe beoð þæt hī þæt gold nimen, þonne lǣdað hī mid him olfenda myran mid hyra folan ⁊ stēdan. Þā folan hī getīġað ǣr hī ofer þā ēa faran. Þæt gold hī gefǣtað on ðā myran ⁊ his sylfe onsittað ⁊ þā stēdan þǣr forlǣtað. (Those who are bold enough to take the gold bring with them male camels and female camels with their calves. They tie up the calves before they cross over the river. They load the gold on the mares, and sit on them themselves, leave the males there.)

Nouns inflected like mere

wielle, mere,

Etymology

1. From Proto-West Germanic *mari (“sea, lake”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Old Frisian mere (West Frisian mar), Old Saxon meri (Low German Meer), Dutch meer, Old High German meri (German Meer), Old Norse marr (Swedish mar). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin mare, Old Irish muir (Breton mor), Old Church Slavonic море (more) (Russian мо́ре (móre)), Lithuanian mãre. See: Dutch Nouns 'meer', German Nouns 'Meer', Old Norse Nouns 'marr', Latin Nouns 'mare'.

Verbs referencing "mere"

English Nouns marine, Old Norse Nouns merr, Faroese Nouns marur.