meri

meri

1. plural of merus

• IMer, Meir, Mire, Remi, emir, mire, reim, riem, rime

• IPA^(key): [meri]

meri

1. dry

• Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From Proto-Aslian *bəriʔ (“forest”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *briiʔ (“forest”).

meri

1. forest

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

meri (genitive mere, partitive merd)

1. sea

From Proto-Finnic *meri,[1] borrowed from some Indo-European language (probably Proto-Balto-Slavic *mári),[2] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeri/, [ˈme̞ri]
• Rhymes: -eri
• Syllabification^(key): me‧ri

meri

1. sea (a single area or the seas altogether)

• Note the grammatical exception: this word is front-vocalic in all forms (e.g. meressä) except the partitive singular, in which back vowels are used (merta instead of **mertä).

• “meri”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

mer (“to dare; to scoop, ladle”) +‎ -i (personal suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛri]
• Hyphenation: me‧ri
• Rhymes: -ri

meri

1. third-person singular indicative present definite of mer

From Old Norse merr, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛːrɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɛːrɪ

meri f (genitive singular merar, nominative plural merar)

1. mare, female horse

   Synonym: hryssa

• ermi, meir, reim

From Proto-Finnic *meri. Cognates include Finnish meri and Estonian meri.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmeri/, [ˈme̞ri]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmeri/, [ˈme̞ri]
• Rhymes: -eri
• Hyphenation: me‧ri

meri

1. sea
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 20:

     Vene ono merel. Levo ono merel.

     The boat is at sea. Levo is at sea.

   • 1936, V. I. Junus, P. L. Maksimov, Inkeroisin keelen oppikirja alkuşkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 28:

     Merilöin rannoil ono meil paljo suurii linnoja — ono Leningrad, ono Sevastopol, ono paljo muita, niitä kera pittää puulustaa.

     At the shores of the seas we have many big cities — we have Leningrad, we have Sevastopol, we have much more, whom they also need to defend.

   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 107:

     Kaik noisi elloo i meri, i metsä, i maa.

     Everything brings life, the sea and the forest and the land.

• (folk poetic) mero

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 86
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 305
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 80

meri

1. masculine plural of mero

• ermi, mire, remi, rime

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

meri (genitive meren, partitive mertä)

1. sea

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.riː/, [ˈmɛriː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ri/, [ˈmɛːri]

merī

1. genitive singular of merum

merī

1. inflection of merus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

meri

1. sea

meri

1. Alternative form of mery

From Proto-West Germanic *mari.

meri n

1. lake, sea

• merikalf (“seal”)
• *meriska (“low-lying pasture near water”)
• meriswīn (“porpoise”)
• *merithi (“pool, group of offshoots of a river”)

• Middle Dutch: mēre, mare
  • Dutch: meer, (regional) maar

• “meri”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

meri m pl

1. plural of măr

Ultimately from Latin meridies

meri

1. afternoon

meri (Cyrillic spelling мери)

1. inflection of meriti:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

meri

1. to touch

meri

1. duck
2. teal

From English Mary. Attested in St. Johnston (1927:72) in reference to Solomon Islands laborers.

meri

1. woman

   Coordinate term: man

   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:22:

     Orait God i wokim wanpela meri long dispela bun em i bin kisim long man, na bihain em i bringim meri i go long man.

     →New International Version translation

2. wife

   Coordinate terms: man, maritman

   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:17:

     Na God i tokim Adam olsem, “Yu bin harim tok bilong meri bilong yu, na yu bin kaikai pikinini bilong dispela diwai mi bin tambuim yu long kaikai. Olsem na nau bai mi bagarapim graun, na ol kaikai bai i no inap kamap gut long en. Oltaim bai yu wok hat tru bilong mekim kaikai i kamap long graun.

     →New International Version translation

meri

1. female

   Coordinate term: man

From Armenian մարի (mari, “hen, female of any bird”).

meri (definite accusative meriyi, plural meriler)

1. (dialect, Elazığ, Malatya, Maraş) female partridge

• “meri (V)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

meri

1. sea

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “море”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

meri (genitive mere, partitive merd)

1. sea

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmeri/, [ˈmerʲi]
• Rhymes: -eri
• Hyphenation: me‧ri

meri

1. sea

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn