Define:Merci
Alemannic German eedit
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- /ˈmɛrsi/
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Merci
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Merci
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French eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Middle French merci, mercy, frae Auld French merci, frae Laitin mercēdem, accusative seengular o mercēs (“wages, fee, price”).
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- IPA(key): /mɛʁ.si/
- (France, Paris) [mɛʁ.si]
- Audio (Fraunce, Paris) (help·info)
- (Louisiana) [mæ(ɾ).si]
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Noun eedit
Merci m (plural Mercis)
- (interjection) thank ye
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Merci f (uncountable)
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- “Merci” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German eedit
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- [mɛʁˈsiː]
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Merci
- (Swisserland) thank ye
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- Merci in Duden online
Italian eedit
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- Hyphenation: mèr‧ci
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Merci f
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Latin eedit
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mercī
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- mercie (Guernsey)
Etymology eedit
Frae Auld French merci (“mercy; clemency”), frae Laitin mercēs, mercēdem (“wages, fee, price”).
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Merci
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- mercie bian (“thank ye verra much”)
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Noun eedit
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- mercy; clemency
- circa 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès:
- Se vos metez an sa merci
Nus (fors le conte qui est ci)
de vos n'i a mort desservie
ja ne perdroiz manbre ne vie- If ye thraw yersels on his mercy
None (apairt frae the coont wha is here)
o ye deserve daith;
ye will lose neither life nor limm
- If ye thraw yersels on his mercy
- Se vos metez an sa merci
- 13th century, Herman de Valenciennes, Assomption Nostre Dame, page 7, column 2, lines 16-17:
- ceo sacez m'amie tuit cil que te requerunt
a tun commandement merci auvrunt- this ye ken, my friend, that aw thae wha are leukin for ye
upon yer command will hae mercy
- this ye ken, my friend, that aw thae wha are leukin for ye
- ceo sacez m'amie tuit cil que te requerunt
- circa 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès: