mare
English
/mɛə/, /mɛəɹ/, /mɛə/, /ˈmɛ(ə)ɹ/, /ˈmɑːɹeɪ/
noun
Definitions
- An adult female horse.
- (UK) A foolish woman.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English mare inherited from Old English mīere (female horse, mare) inherited from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (female horse, mare).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*marhijō
Gloss
female horse, mare
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Kraken English
- Kraken Mare English
- archmarshal English
- field marshal English
- marshal English
- marshalate English
- marshalcy English
- marshaler English
- marshaless English
- marshalship English
- mid-nightmare English
- midnightmare English
- night English
- nightmare English
- nightmarelike English
- nightmarey English
- nightmarious English
- nightmarish English
- nightmary English
- remarshal English
- sea English
- seamare English
- submarshal English
- unmarshal English
- Mähre German
- Stall German
- merrie Dutch, Flemish
- cauchemar French
- cauchemardement French
- cauchemardesque French
- cauque French
- mar French
- кошма́р Russian
- кошмар Russian
- *mark- Proto-Indo-European
- merr Norwegian Bokmål
- *marhaz Proto-Germanic
- *marhijō Proto-Germanic
- märr Swedish
- 絵馬 Japanese
- 馬 Japanese
- 馬素 Japanese
- 馬術 Japanese
- 馬魚 Japanese
- merr Norwegian Nynorsk
- mearh Old English
- mere Old English
- mīere Old English
- yþmearh Old English
- marchal Middle English
- mare Middle English
- nightmare Middle English
- fylmerr Old Norse
- merr Old Norse
- mær Danish
- marštal Czech
- koŝmaro Esperanto
- košmar Serbo-Croatian
- кошмар Serbo-Croatian
- meri Icelandic
- coșmar Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- merrie Middle Dutch
- meriha Old High German
- koshmaro Ido
- mer Faroese
- кошмар Bulgarian
- meriche Middle High German
- cauchemare Middle French
- קאָשמאַר Yiddish
- *marhijā gmw-pro
- *meria Old Dutch
- კოშმარი Georgian
- кошмар Macedonian
- Märe Alemannic German
- marr Westrobothnian
- meir Scots
- merje Western Frisian
- merie Old Frisian
- kojmar Volapük
- ウンマ Ainu