mere
noun/mɪə(r)/
/mɪr/
(British English, literary) also used in names- a small lakeWord Originnoun Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meer ‘lake’ and German Meer ‘sea’, from an Indo-European root shared by Russian more and Latin mare.
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