English word origin

Etymology of Mar

From Scottish Gaelic Màrr, probably based on a Brythonic personal name Marsos.

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Source etymology 2

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name

An earldom in the Scottish peerage.

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From Scottish Gaelic Màrr, probably based on a Brythonic personal name Marsos.

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Borrowed-form mentionMàrrgd

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Source etymology 3

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noun

A title of respect in Syriac, given to all saints and also used before the Christian names of bishops.

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From Classical Syriac ܡܪܝ (mār(ī)), the first-person singular possessive form of ܡܪܐ (mārā, “lord, master”).

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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

Unspecified derivation mentionܡܪܝsyc

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