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marter.

marten (mammal)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmɑr.tər/
  1. marten (mammal)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch marter, maerter, martel, which is generally believed to be a reborrowing from Old French martre, itself from Proto-West Germanic *marþr (“marten”), which see. Alternatively, however, the irregular /t/ (instead of *marder) might be due to a special development of West Germanic *þ in the difficult cluster *rþr (either early stopping to *rtr or otherwise failure to undergo voicing to [rðr]). Compare Low German Moter, e.g. around Paderborn, where French influence is less plausible.

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