meiri

See also: měirì

Japanese

Romanization

meiri

Rōmaji transcription of めいり

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *maizô, whence also Old English māra (English more), Old Frisian māra (West Frisian mear), Old Saxon mēro (Low German mehr), Dutch meer, Old High German mēro (German mehr), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌶𐌰 (maiza).

Adverb

meiri

comparative degree of mikill
more

Descendants

Danish: mere
Faroese: meiri, meira
Icelandic: meiri, meira

Norwegian Bokmål: mer, mere
Norwegian Nynorsk: meir
Swedish: mera

References

meiri in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Welsh

Noun

meiri

plural of maer

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