mereswine

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A porpoise or dolphin. archaic,poetic,rare

词形变化

mereswines plural mereswine plural mereswyne alternative,Scotland merswine alternative,Scotland

词源

Inherited from Middle English mereswyn (“porpoise, dolphin”), from Old English mereswīn (“porpoise, dolphin”), from Proto-West Germanic *mariswīn, from Proto-Germanic *mariswīną (“dolphin, porpoise, cetacean”). By surface analysis, mere + swine or mer- + swine.
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