> Cognate with Old Frisian mā , mē , Middle Dutch mee , Middle Low German mē , Middle High German mē (early modern German meh ), Old Icelandic meir , Old Swedish mer (Swedish mer ), Danish mer , Gothic mais (the West Germanic forms show loss of final *-z ) < a suffixed (comparative) form of the Indo-European base of mere adj.1; compare (with a different ablaut grade) Oscan mais, Early Irish, Irish mó, Albanian më.
For adverbial forms in -r in English and other West Germanic languages influenced by or developed from adjectival forms, see more adv.; some of the forms without -r in continental…