köken: From Middle High German mere, mer, from Old High German meri, from Proto-West Germanic *mari. Doublet of Maar and Mare. Cognates Cognate with Dutch meer (“lake”), Low German Meer (“sea”), English mere (“sea, lake”). Via Indo-European is cognate with Latin mare.
sea (large body of water) · the ocean (the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface)
çekim: çoğul mers
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mer-? Proto-Indo-European *móri Proto-Italic *mari Latin mare Old French mer Middle French mer French mer Inherited from Middle French mer, from Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. The word is almost unparalleled as a Latin neuter that has become feminine without being a backformation from a plural in -a…
aile: anémone de mer, araignée de mer, armée de mer, bouteille à la mer, bras de mer, cardon de mer, cigale de mer, cochon de mer, concombre de mer, eau de mer
köken: Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دَكِزْ (däŋiz), from Proto-Turkic *teŋiŕ, whence also Hungarian tenger (“sea”). Cognate with Turkish deniz, Tatar диңгез (diñgez), Bashkir диңгеҙ (diñgeź), Kazakh теңіз (teñız), Uyghur دېڭىز (dë'ngiz) Chuvash тинӗс (tinĕs, “sea”), etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *teŋiŕ (“sea”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (teŋiz, “sea”); Kazakh теңіз (teñız, “sea”), Kyrgyz деңиз (deŋiz, “sea”), Uzbek dengiz (“sea”), Turkmen deňiz (“sea”), Turkish deniz (“sea”), etc.
mare · a multitude; a great amount or number of things
çekim: çoğul mares
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mar (“sea”), from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Compare Galician mar.
aile: amarar, gaivotas em terra, tempestade no mar, Mar Adriático, mar alto, Mar Amarelo, Mar Aral, Mar Báltico, Mar Branco, Mar Cáspio, mar chão
köken: First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 바닿〮 (pàtáh), from pre-Middle Korean *바닥〮 (Yale: *pàták), a form still preserved directly in certain southern dialects. The */-k/ may be the remnant of an archaic place suffix (see Appendix:Middle Korean h-final nouns), which leaves *바다〮 (Yale: *pàtá) as the etymological root. This notion is further supported by the existence…
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian دَرْیَا (daryā), from Middle Persian [script needed] (dlydʾp̄ /drayāb/, “sea”), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎼𐎹 (d-r-y /draya/, “ocean, sea”) + Middle Persian ʾp̄ (āb).
köken: From Proto-Finnic *meri, borrowed from some Indo-European language (probably Proto-Balto-Slavic *mári), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
köken: Most likely inherited from Latin maiōrem, accusative singular of Latin maior, through a Common Romanian intermediate *maure, akin to Dalmatian maur. The shift from /au/ to /a/ is caused by syncope. Compare Aromanian mari, Megleno-Romanian mari, and the aforementioned Dalmatian maur. See also Portuguese mor, Logudorese mere and Campidanese meri. This would make the word a doublet of maior and…