merren

• marre, merre
• mearren (AB language); mæren (early Worcestershire)
• mere (Cheshire); mare (Lancashire); merr (West Riding)

Inherited from Anglian Old English merran, from Proto-West Germanic *marʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to forget”).

Forms with /a/ may reflect Anglian Old English *mærran as well as the Middle English lowering of /ɛr/ to /ar/, while those with a long vowel are presumably levelled from the Old English past stem mer-, *mær-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmarən/, /ˈmɛrən/
• IPA^(key): /mar/, /mɛr/, (rare) /maːr/, /mɛ̞ːr/ (Northern)

merren (third-person singular simple present merreth, present participle merrende, merrynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle merred) (chiefly Northern or West Midland)

1. (transitive) To disturb, hinder, or prevent (a person or thing)
2. (transitive) To damage, impair or destroy (a person or thing):

   Synonyms: destroyen, stroyen

   1. To spoil or ruin (an aim, capability, or endeavour)
   2. To wound or kill; to damage physically.
3. (transitive) To vex, afflict, or harass.

   Synonyms: destroyen, stroyen

4. (intransitive) To weaken or disappear.
5. (intransitive, rare) To be perplexed or vexed.

• amerren

• English: mar
• Middle Scots: mar, mer, mere
  • Scots: mar, mer

• “merren, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• merra

merren m or f

1. definite masculine singular of merr

• IPA^(key): /ˈmer.ren/, [ˈmerˠ.rˠen]

merren (Anglian)

1. plural present subjunctive of merran