meur

'All of us hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things God has done': ni a's klyw ow kewsel y'gan yethow a oberow meur Dyw.

Sermon given in Truro Cathedral at the launch of the New Testament in Cornish 2004

If we are fond of dubious linguistic speculation, we can meditate on the possible significance of the change from the syllable mer (sea, with an implied background of mère, mother) to meur (die; Meursault = the imperative, meurs sot! die fool!).

Stranger in Paradise Weightman, John 1972

This was soon answered by the younger members -- "_Bar na meur uileadh an aon fhad_" -- (The points of the fingers the same length).

The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad Various 1865

Haec est for* inula perspicua, nuUique obnoxia cavil lationi: Amo te, Deus meur super omnia.

Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792

"Qe ele eit deux femmes du pays oversqe li; cest asaver, une damoisele & une femme por sa chambre, qi soient bien d'age & nyent gayes, & qi eles soient de bon & meur port; les queles soient entendantz, a li por li servir:

Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 Various