meiri

See also: měirì

Icelandic

Adjective

meiri

  1. inflection of mikill:
    1. masculine singular comparative degree
    2. feminine singular comparative degree
    3. plural comparative degree

Japanese

Romanization

meiri

  1. 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).

Adjective

meiri (superlative mestr)

  1. comparative degree of mikill

Declension
    Declension of meiri
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative meiri meiri meira
accusative meira meiri meira
dative meira meiri meira
genitive meira meiri meira
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative meiri meiri meiri
accusative meiri meiri meiri
dative meirum meirum meirum
genitive meiri meiri meiri

Adverb

meiri

  1. more

Descendants
  • Icelandic: meiri, meira, meir
  • Faroese: meiri, meira
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: meir; (dialectal) meire, meira
  • Swedish: mera
  • Danish: mere

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

Welsh

Noun

meiri

  1. plural of maer (“mayor”)

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
meiri feiri unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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