2015 November 15, Lothar Mueller, Askhad K. Sheudshen, Frank Eulenstein,Novel Methods for Monitoring and Managing Land and Water Resources in Siberia, Springer,→ISBN, page79:
Glagolev[…] measured CH4 emission from amire in West Siberia using a static chamber method. Similar methods had been developed and tested by Nakano et al. (2006), Fig. 1.
2017 April 2, Dafydd Pritchard, “Swansea City 0-0 Middlesbrough”, inBBC Sport[2], London:
Swansea seemed to be pulling clear of trouble with five wins in their first eight games following head coachPaul Clement's appointment, but two successive defeats had dragged the Swans back into themire.
Why had I not with charitable hand Took up a beggar’s issue at my gates, Who smirch’d thus andmired with infamy, I might have said ‘No part of it is mine; This shame derives itself from unknown loins’?
1866,The Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser Devoted, page149:
"Having been seriously interrupted by small brown ants ormires working in my cutting bench, digging holes down the side of my cuttings, thereby arresting the process of rooting.[…]"
1915, Daniel T. Trombley,Batiste of Isle La Motte, page24:
Wen I lay down behine dat log I plunk masef right een one dem auntymire nest an bout 10 million of dem leetle devil begin to heat me.
1939, original c.1300,Publications - Volume 103; Volume 105, page267:
The ant figures in theBestiary, which tells us that the 'mire' is mighty; toils much in summer and in soft weather; stores wood and seed, corn and grass; in winter she is not harmed: she likes wheat, but shuns barley[…]
mire in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
Inherited fromLatinmīles(“soldier”). The original sense of soldier is still attested in some Christmas carols.[1] The semantic evolution originates in Roman law, which granted soldiers the right to marry only upon their release from service as veterans (see also:bătrân). Consequently, once married, a man was no longer amiles.
Less likely, the sense of bridegroom arose as a semantic calque of the rarevoină(“husband”), fromSlavicвоинъ(voinŭ,“warrior”).
Other improbable etymologies proposed includeTurkishamir(“chief”), Cumanmir ("prince"), aVulgar Latin*mīrex, fromAncient Greekμεῖραξ(meîrax,“adolescent; boy”), or an old Indo-European term.[2]
Replacedmărit, which only survived in some regional dialects.
