marangon
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Venetian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin mergō, mergōnem, from Latin mergus (“diver, loon”).[1] The sense of “carpenter” evolved from “one who repairs ships underwater” (in the Venetian Arsenal).[2] Compare the semantic development of Italian palombaro (“deep-sea diver”), from palumbārius (“a kind of hawk which attacks doves”). Cognate with Italian marangone (“cormorant”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
marangon m (plural marangoni, feminine singular marangona)
Descendants[edit]
- → Cimbrian: marangù, marangùn
- → Greek: μαραγκός (maragkós)
- → Friulian: marangon
- → Ladin: marangon, maringon
- → Lombard: marangù, marengù (Eastern)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مارانغوز, مرانغوز (marangoz)
- → Romansch: marangun
References[edit]
- ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “marangon”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 405
- ^ See the entry in Buck, Carl Darling (1949) A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, Chicago: University of Chicago Press