Old English had mere for “sea, ocean, lake, pool, pond”, encompassing both salt- and freshwater bodies. Modern English “mere” came to denote the latter type, “pool, small lake, pond”; nowadays it exists only in place names, such as Windermere.
The Old Norse name Ægir ('sea') may stem from a Proto-Germanic form *āgwi-jaz ('that of the river/water'), itself a derivative of the stem *ahwō- ('river'; cf.
Etymology. From Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan, from Old French occean (later reborrowed or reinforced by Middle French ocean), from Latin Ōceanus, originally from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”, a water deity).
From Middle High German sē, from Old High German sēo, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (“sea, ocean”).
SAE mean in Old English : skilled at ; proficient in. Sae meaning in slang : Self Addressed Envelope. ADVERB.
Noun. moe. Obsolete form of mow (“wry face, grimace”).
*ser- (1) Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to protect." It forms all or part of: conservation; conservative; conserve; observance; observatory; observe; preserve; reservation; reserve; reservoir.
From Ancient Greek πέλαγος (pélagos, “sea”).
Thalassa (/θəˈlæsə/; Greek: Θάλασσα, translit. Thálassa, lit. "sea"; Attic Greek: Θάλαττα, Thálatta) was the general word for 'sea' and for its divine female personification in Greek mythology.
brim - Anglo-Saxon dictionary.
Amphitrite, in Greek mythology, the goddess of the sea, wife of the god Poseidon, and one of the 50 (or 100) daughters (the Nereids) of Nereus and Doris (the daughter of Oceanus). Poseidon chose Amphitrite from among her sisters as the Nereids performed a dance on the isle of Naxos.
The ocean is the sea.
Historically, there are four named oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. However, most countries - including the United States - now recognize the Southern (Antarctic) as the fifth ocean.
This captures the essence of the Vikings, fast-moving sailors who used the water as their highway to take them across the northern Atlantic, around the coasts of Europe and up its rivers to trade, raid or settle. In their poetry they call the sea 'the whale road'.
Spelled variably as Skål, Skál, Skaal, Skoal, or Skol (depending on country and how it's transliterated in English), it's the ubiquitous Scandinavian “cheers” that no drink of aquavit would be complete without.
Old Norse sources repeatedly refer to water as the blood of a cosmic entity, Ymir. This primordial figure is killed by three deities (there's that number again), who dismember Ymir and from his corpse form the cosmos, which includes the land, sea, and sky.
The word water comes from Old English wæter, from Proto-Germanic *watar (source also of Old Saxon watar, Old Frisian wetir, Dutch water, Old High German wazzar, German Wasser, vatn, Gothic ???? (wato), from Proto-Indo-European *wod-or, suffixed form of root *wed- ("water"; "wet").
Etymology: from Latin mare, "sea".
Translation and location
The Hebrew word yam means 'sea', and the word suph by itself means 'reed', e.g. in Exodus 2:3; hence, a literal translation of yam suph—with the two words combined in construct state—yields 'sea of reeds'.
Poseidon or Neptune
God of the sea, horses and earthquakes, Poseidon – or Neptune – is often shown driving a chariot of horses or sea creatures and wielding the trident he used to control the waves.
In Greek literature (which is where the phrase entered Western literature), the Seven Seas were the Aegean, Adriatic, Mediterranean, Black, Red, and Caspian seas, with the Persian Gulf thrown in as a "sea."
The Greek God Poseidon, King of the Sea.
ver (plural vers) Abbreviation of version.
Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men titled as knights, often as members of orders of chivalry, as well as later applied to baronets and other offices.
saber in American English
(ˈseibər) noun. a heavy, one-edged sword, usually slightly curved, used esp. by cavalry.