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Is meri a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word meri is a Scrabble US word. The word meri is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is meri a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word meri is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

M3E1R1I1

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4-letter words (5 found)

EMIR,MERI,MIRE,RIEM,RIME,

3-letter words (6 found)

ERM,IRE,MIR,REI,REM,RIM,

2-letter words (5 found)

EM,ER,ME,MI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from meri according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of meri

meri emri mrei rmei ermi remi meir emir mier imer eimr iemr mrie rmie mire imre rime irme erim reim eirm ierm riem irem

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Definitions and meaning of meri

meri

Noun

meri

  1. plural of merus

Anagrams

  • IMer, Meir, Mire, Remi, emir, mire, reim, riem, rime

Ajië

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [meri]

Adjective

meri

  1. dry

References

  • Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
  • Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Besisi

Etymology

From Proto-Aslian *bəriʔ (“forest”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *briiʔ (“forest”).

Noun

meri

  1. forest

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

Noun

meri (genitive mere, partitive merd)

  1. sea

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri, borrowed from some Indo-European language (probably Proto-Balto-Slavic *mári), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeri/, [ˈme̞ri]
  • Rhymes: -eri
  • Syllabification(key): me‧ri

Noun

meri

  1. sea (a single area or the seas altogether)

Declension

  • Note the grammatical exception: this word is front-vocalic in all forms (e.g. meressä) except the partitive singular, in which back vowels are used (merta instead of **mertä).

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • “meri”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Hungarian

Etymology

mer (“to dare; to scoop, ladle”) +‎ -i (personal suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛri]
  • Hyphenation: me‧ri
  • Rhymes: -ri

Verb

meri

  1. third-person singular indicative present definite of mer

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse merr, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛːrɪ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛːrɪ

Noun

meri f (genitive singular merar, nominative plural merar)

  1. mare, female horse
    Synonym: hryssa

Declension

Anagrams

  • ermi, meir, reim

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri. Cognates include Finnish meri and Estonian meri.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈmeri/, [ˈme̞ri]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈmeri/, [ˈme̞ri]
  • Rhymes: -eri
  • Hyphenation: me‧ri

Noun

meri

  1. sea

Declension

Synonyms

  • (folk poetic) mero

Derived terms

References

  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[4], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 86
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 305
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎[5], →ISBN, page 80

Italian

Adjective

meri

  1. masculine plural of mero

Anagrams

  • ermi, mire, remi, rime

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

Noun

meri (genitive meren, partitive mertä)

  1. sea

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈme.riː/, [ˈmɛriː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.ri/, [ˈmɛːri]

Noun

merī

  1. genitive singular of merum

Adjective

merī

  1. inflection of merus:
    1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
    2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

Noun

meri

  1. sea

Middle English

Adjective

meri

  1. Alternative form of mery

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mari.

Noun

meri n

  1. lake, sea

Derived terms

  • merikalf (“seal”)
  • *meriska (“low-lying pasture near water”)
  • meriswīn (“porpoise”)
  • *merithi (“pool, group of offshoots of a river”)

Descendants

  • Middle Dutch: mēre, mare
    • Dutch: meer, (regional) maar

References

  • “meri”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Romanian

Noun

meri m pl

  1. plural of măr

Sardinian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin meridies

Noun

meri

  1. afternoon

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

meri (Cyrillic spelling мери)

  1. inflection of meriti:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person singular imperative

Sranan Tongo

Verb

meri

  1. to touch

Sundanese

Noun

meri

  1. duck
  2. teal

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English Mary. Attested in St. Johnston (1927:72) in reference to Solomon Islands laborers.

Noun

meri

  1. woman
    Coordinate term: man
  2. wife
    Coordinate terms: man, maritman

Adjective

meri

  1. female
    Coordinate term: man

Derived terms

Turkish

Etymology

From Armenian մարի (mari, “hen, female of any bird”).

Noun

meri (definite accusative meriyi, plural meriler)

  1. (dialect, Elazığ, Malatya, Maraş) female partridge

References

  • “meri (V)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

Noun

meri

  1. sea

Inflection

Derived terms

References

  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “море”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[6], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

Noun

meri (genitive mere, partitive merd)

  1. sea

Inflection

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meri.

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈmeri/, [ˈmerʲi]
  • Rhymes: -eri
  • Hyphenation: me‧ri

Noun

meri

  1. sea

Inflection

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

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