moor

English

/moː/, /moː/, /mɔː/, /mʊə/, /mɔɹ/, /mʊ(ə)ɹ/

noun
Definitions
  • An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
  • A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English mor inherited from Old English mōr (moor, marsh) inherited from Proto-Germanic *mōraz (moor) derived from Proto-Indo-European *móri (sea, lake, body of water, standing water).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*móri

Gloss

sea, lake, body of water, standing water

Concept
Semantic Field

The physical world

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

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