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South Mere

South Mere proper noun: sunnmøre (a district in North Western Norway, now in Møre og Romsdal county).

Proper noun

South Mere

  1. (historical, rare) Sunnmøre (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

Forms of South Mere

alternative formSouth Moor
alternative formSouth More

Origin of South Mere

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

Questions about South Mere

What does South Mere mean?
South Mere means sunnmøre (a district in North Western Norway, now in Møre og Romsdal county).
What part of speech is South Mere?
South Mere is a proper noun.

Words near South Mere in the dictionary

  1. South Maitland
  2. South Manchuria
  3. South Maroota
  4. South Marston
  5. South Melbourne
  6. South Mere
  7. South Meriden
  8. South Merstham
  9. South Miami
  10. South Molton
  11. South Monrovia Island

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