миръ

• Glagolitic: ⰿⰹⱃⱏ (mirŭ)

From Proto-Slavic *mirъ (“peace; world”).

миръ • (mirŭ) m

1. world
   • Excerpt from the Story of Boris and Gleb, line 11:

     Како не въсхотѣ славы мꙇра сего

     Oh how he wanted not the glory of this world!

2. peace
   • from Vita Methodii, 0800500-0800510:

     Слава въ вꙑшьнихъ богоу и на земли миръ, въ человѣцѣхъ благоволениѥ.

     Slava vŭ vyšĭnixŭ bogu i na zemli mirŭ, vŭ čelověcěxŭ blagovolenije.

     Glory to God in the hightest, on earth peace, goodwill toward men.

   • from Slavonic Josephus, книга 5, 436б:

     извѣсто бо емоу бꙑсть. ꙗко нарѡд мира хотѧть. но боꙗщесѧ мѧтежникъ.

     izvěsto bo emu bystĭ. jako narod mira xotętĭ. no bojaštesę mętežnikŭ.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

From Proto-Slavic *mirъ. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic миръ (mirŭ) and Old Polish mir.

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈmirʊ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲirʊ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲir/
• Hyphenation: ми‧ръ

миръ (mirŭ) m

1. world
2. peace

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893), “миръ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 147

From Proto-Yukaghir *mit. Cognates include Southern Yukaghir мит (mit).

миръ (mir)

1. we

• Ferdinand von Wrangel (1841) Прибавленія къ путешествію по сѣвернымъ берегамъ Сибири и Ледовитому Морю [Supplements to the adventure along the northern shores of Siberia and the Arctic Ocean] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg, page 118

• IPA^(key): [mʲir]

миръ • (mir) m inan (genitive ми́ра, nominative plural миры́, genitive plural миро́въ)

1. Pre-1918 spelling of мир (mir): peace.

Not to be confused with міръ (mir), the spelling used for the meaning "world".