Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.) · A game preserve consisting of moorland.
From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionmorenm
- Inherited-form mentionmōrang
- Inherited-form mention*mōrgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*mōrazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*móriine-pro
- Cognate mentionmôrcy
- Cognate mentionmuirsga
- Cognate mention*moricel-pro
- Cognate mentionmuirsco
- Cognate mentionmoernl
- Cognate mentionmōrosx
- Cognate mentionmūrosx
- Cognate mentionMoorde
- Cognate mention𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹got
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