mereing

Meaning

Noun

• An administrative or property boundary on a map.
• The process of deciding upon the boundary's position.

Origin

• From Middle English, from Old English mǣre ("boundary, limit"), from Proto-Germanic *mēriją ("boundary"), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- ("to fence"). Cognate with Dutch meer ("a limit, boundary"), Icelandic mærr ("borderland"), Swedish landamäre ("border, borderline, boundary").