mereing

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*mey-“to fence”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*mēriją“boundary”
3. Old English · inherited frommǣre“boundary, limit”
4. English todaymereing

From Middle English, from Old English mǣre (“boundary, limit”), from Proto-Germanic *mēriją (“boundary”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fence”). Cognate with Dutch meer (“a limit, boundary”), Icelandic mærr (“borderland”), Swedish landamäre (“border, borderline, boundary”).

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