mori, mōri

    mori, mōri

    English meaning: sea

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Meer”; Gmc. also ‘stehendes Wasser”

    Material: Lat. mare, -is n. (i-stem; gen. pl. marum secondary; with unclear a); O.Ir. muir gen. mora n., Welsh Corn. Bret. mor ‘sea”, Gaul. Mor-inī, Aremori-cī VN “Meeranwohner”, morimarusa “mare mortum”; PN Mori-dūnum “Murten”; Goth. marei f. ‘sea”, O.S. meri, O.H.G. marī, merī ds. (-īn-stem); Goth. mari-saiws m. ‘sea”, O.Ice. marr, gen. marar m. ‘sea, sea”, O.H.G. mari, meri (gen. meres) m. n. ‘sea”, O.E. mere m. ‘sea, sea, pond, pool”, O.S. meri m. “ditch, trench, channel, pond, pool”; with -sk-Suff. O.E. merisc m. ‘swamp, marsh” (compare M.Lat. marisca ds., Gmc. Lw.), O.S. mersc, M.N.Ger. mersch, marsch, “Marsch”; with -g-Suff. O.E. merece m., O.Ice. merki; lengthened grade O.E. mōr m., O.S. mōr n., O.H.G. muor n. “moor, fen, sea”, O.Ice. mørr f. ‘sumpfland”, O.H.G. salz-muorra ‘salzsumpf” (*mōri̯ ō); O.Pruss. mary “Haff” (*marē); Lith. mãrė, mostly f. pl. mãrės, mãrios ‘sea, ostsee, kurisches Haff”; O.C.S. morje ‘sea”;Bal.-Slav. *pa-marii̯a- n. “Meeresgegend” in Lith. pamarỹs m., pa-mãrė f. ‘seekũste”, O.C.S. po-morije “Meeresgebiet”, Ger. Pommern.

    References: WP. II 234 f., WH. II 33 f., Trautmann 169 f.; after Specht IE Decl. 119 to mer- 3.