South Mere

proper noun

Sunnmøre (a district in North Western Norway, now in Møre og Romsdal county).

OriginOld Norse Sunnmǿrr →
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Meanings

proper noun

alternative South Moor · alternative South More

  1. historicalrareSunnmøre (a district in North Western Norway, now in Møre og Romsdal county).

    North of the Sogn firth come the Feles (Fialar) and Firths, but past Cape Start, where the land turns and runs north-east, we come to the northern land of the Reams, North and South Mere and Reamsdale, stretching up over two degrees of latitude.

    1908, W. G. Collingwood, Scandinavian Britain (Early Britain), London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 18

Origin

  1. Old NorseSunnmǿrr
  2. EnglishSouth Mere

From south + Mere; an adapted borrowing of Old Norse Sunnmǿrr, Sunnmǿri, from sunn- (“south”) + Mǿrr.

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Chicago

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