Mier
/miːr/noun
A Scots and dialectal word meaning a boundary, landmark, or limit.
Did you know?Mier is a spelling variant of the old boundary word meare, preserved in Scots and related to the ancient Germanic vocabulary of marking territorial limits.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*mērijō
“A boundary or territorial limit; reconstructed ancestor of related Germanic forms.”
Old English
Old English
gemǣre
“A boundary, border, or dividing line.”
Middle English
Middle English
mere
“A boundary, limit, or boundary marker.”
15th–17th Century
Scots
mear / mier
“A boundary, landmark, or limit; variant spellings developed in Scots usage.”
Modern English
English
mier
“A surviving Scots and dialectal term for a boundary or landmark.”