ore
/oɹ/ · noun
Meaning
- Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.
- A unit of currency used in England around the 10th to 12th centuries.
- Seaweed, especially that which is washed up ashore.
- A type of fine wool, especially of the type historically produced in the market town of Leominster, Herefordshire.
- Obsolete form of over.
- Alternative form of öre.
- A suburban area, formerly a village, in Hastings borough, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ8311).
- A river in Suffolk, England, in two sections; a non-tidal section that joins the River Alde, and a tidal section, a renaming of the Alde parallel to the coast south of Aldeburgh, passing Orford before entering the North Sea.
- A tributary of the River Leven, Fife council area, Scotland.
- Abbreviation of Oregon.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English or, oor, blend of Old English ōra (“ore, unwrought metal”) and ār (“brass, copper, bronze”), the first a derivate of ear (“earth”), the second from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *aiz, from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h₂éyos. Compare Old Norse eir (“brass, copper”), German ehern (“of metal, of iron”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌶 (aiz, “ore”); also Dutch oer (“ferrous hardpan; bog iron ore”). Compare Latin aes (“bronze, copper”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬵 (aiiah), Sanskrit अयस् (áyas, “copper, iron”).
- अयस्(Sanskrit)→
- 𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬵(ae)→
- aes(Latin)→
- oer(Dutch)→
- 𐌰𐌹𐌶(Gothic)→
- ehern(German)→
- eir(Old Norse)→
- *áyos(ine-pro)→
- *aiz(gem-pro)→
- *aiʀ(gmw-pro)→
- ōra(ang)→
- or(Middle English)→
- ore (English)
- Relations: inh, inh, inh, inh, inh, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- eir(Icelandic) (cog)
- aes(Latin) (cog)
- hesin(Northern Kurdish) (cog)
- eir(Norwegian Nynorsk) (cog)
- अयस्(Sanskrit) (cog)
- ore(Spanish) (bor)
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