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MARTEN
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English
English : habitational name from any of the various places so called, for example in Devon, Kent, and West Yorkshire. According to Ekwall, the first element of these place names is respectively Old English (ge)mǣre ‘boundary’, myrig ‘pleasant’, and mearð ‘(pine) marten’. The second element in each case is Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This surname was taken to Ireland by a Northumbrian family who settled there in the 17th century.
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German
Low German form of Latin Martinus, MARTEN means "of/like Mars."
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Leicestershire, recorded in Domesday Book as Merdegrave. The original name derived from Old English mearð ‘marten’ + grÄf ‘grove’, but after the Norman Conquest the first element was taken to be Old French merde ‘dung’, ‘filth’, and changed to Old French beu, bel ‘fair’, ‘lovely’, to remove the unpleasant association. A mid 12th-century writer refers to the place as ‘Merthegrave, nunc (now) Belegrava’.
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North German and Dutch
North German and Dutch : patronymic from Marten.English : variant of Martins.
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Scandinavian
Warrior of Mars.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English martre, marter ‘marten’ (Old French martre).Dutch : possibly from marter ‘marten’.
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English : from an early Middle English personal name, Mert or Mart, or perhaps a nickname from Old English mearð ‘(pine) marten’.German (Alsace-Lorraine) : from a short form of Martin.
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Australian, British, Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, Netherlands, Scandinavian, Swedish
Warrior of Mars; Warlike; Little Marcus; Dedicated to Mars; Like Mars
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n.
Any one of several fur-bearing carnivores of the genus Mustela, closely allied to the sable. Among the more important species are the European beech, or stone, marten (Mustela foina); the pine marten (M. martes); and the American marten, or sable (M. Americana), which some zoologists consider only a variety of the Russian sable.
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The fur of the marten, used for hats, muffs, etc.
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The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten.
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Like or pertaining to the family Mustelidae, or the weasels and martens.
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Same as Marten.
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A bird. See Martin.
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A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.