marsna

Old Dutch

Etymology

Unknown. Often connected to *marisk (“marsh”) or its source *mari (“sea”), but this is doubtful, and the suffix -sna is otherwise unattested in late Germanic. The name could be of non-Germanic substrate origin.

Noun

marsna ?

  1. Maarssen (a village in modern Utrecht, the Netherlands)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “maarssen”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
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