"mor" meaning in Old English

See mor in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /moːr/
Rhymes: -oːr Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *mōr. Cognate with Old Saxon mōr (Dutch moer), Middle Low German mōr (German Moor), Old High German muor, Old Norse mǫr. Etymology templates: {{dercat|ang|gem-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*mōr}} Proto-West Germanic *mōr, {{cog|osx|mōr}} Old Saxon mōr, {{cog|nl|moer}} Dutch moer, {{cog|gml|mōr}} Middle Low German mōr, {{cog|de|Moor}} German Moor, {{cog|goh|muor}} Old High German muor, {{cog|non|mǫr}} Old Norse mǫr Head templates: {{ang-noun|m|head=mōr}} mōr m Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-a-m|mōr}}, {{ang-decl-noun|mōr|mōras|mōr|mōras|mōres|mōra|mōre|mōrum|num=|title=|type=strong a-stem}} Forms: mōr [canonical, masculine], no-table-tags [table-tags], mōr [nominative, singular], mōras [nominative, plural], mōr [accusative, singular], mōras [accusative, plural], mōres [genitive, singular], mōra [genitive, plural], mōre [dative, singular], mōrum [dative, plural]
  1. moor
    Sense id: en-mor-ang-noun-pv42mtxq Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 82 18
  2. mountain
    Sense id: en-mor-ang-noun-O4DTj3aG Categories (other): Landforms Disambiguation of Landforms: 39 61
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          "english": "Finns dwell on the moors; and that inhabited land is widest in the east, and always smaller farther north. In the east it can be sixty miles wide, or a bit wider; and in the middle, thirty miles or broader; and in the north, he said, where it was smallest, it might be three miles across to the moor; and the moor, in some places, is as wide as a man can cross in two weeks; and in some places, as broad as a man can cross in six days.",
          "text": "Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan\nOn þǣm mōrum eardiað Finnas; and þæt bȳne land is ēasteweard brādost, and symle swā norðor swā smælre. Ēastewerd hit mæġ bīon syxtiġ mīla brād, oþþe hwēne brǣdre; and middeweard þritiġ oððe brādre; and norðeweard, hē cwæð, þǣr hit smalost wǣre, þæt hit mihte bēon þrēora mīla brād tō þǣm mōre; and sē mōr syðþan, on sumum stōwum, swā brād swā man mæġ on twām wucum oferferan; and, on sumum stōwum, swā brād swā man mæġ on syx dagum oferferan.",
          "translation": "Finns dwell on the moors; and that inhabited land is widest in the east, and always smaller farther north. In the east it can be sixty miles wide, or a bit wider; and in the middle, thirty miles or broader; and in the north, he said, where it was smallest, it might be three miles across to the moor; and the moor, in some places, is as wide as a man can cross in two weeks; and in some places, as broad as a man can cross in six days.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Finns dwell on the moors; and that inhabited land is widest in the east, and always smaller farther north. In the east it can be sixty miles wide, or a bit wider; and in the middle, thirty miles or broader; and in the north, he said, where it was smallest, it might be three miles across to the moor; and the moor, in some places, is as wide as a man can cross in two weeks; and in some places, as broad as a man can cross in six days.",
          "text": "Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan\nOn þǣm mōrum eardiað Finnas; and þæt bȳne land is ēasteweard brādost, and symle swā norðor swā smælre. Ēastewerd hit mæġ bīon syxtiġ mīla brād, oþþe hwēne brǣdre; and middeweard þritiġ oððe brādre; and norðeweard, hē cwæð, þǣr hit smalost wǣre, þæt hit mihte bēon þrēora mīla brād tō þǣm mōre; and sē mōr syðþan, on sumum stōwum, swā brād swā man mæġ on twām wucum oferferan; and, on sumum stōwum, swā brād swā man mæġ on syx dagum oferferan.",
          "translation": "Finns dwell on the moors; and that inhabited land is widest in the east, and always smaller farther north. In the east it can be sixty miles wide, or a bit wider; and in the middle, thirty miles or broader; and in the north, he said, where it was smallest, it might be three miles across to the moor; and the moor, in some places, is as wide as a man can cross in two weeks; and in some places, as broad as a man can cross in six days.",
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    {
      "ipa": "/moːr/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oːr"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mor"
}

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