moor

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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

Verb

1. To cast anchor or become fastened.
2. To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
3. To secure or fix firmly.

Concepts

amarrer

lande

marais

attacher

bruyère

mouiller

lier

ancrer

tourbière

steppe

maure

champ

prairie

s’amarrer

Maure

marécage

plaine

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/moː/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.