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Mearns

Mearns proper noun: a surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Proper noun

Mearns (countable and uncountable, plural Mearnses)

  1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
  2. A hamlet in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada.

Forms of Mearns

pluralMearnses

Origin of Mearns

Scottish habitational surname for someone coming from The Mearns, an alternative name for Kincardineshire, which is named as An Mhaoirne in Scottish Gaelic, from maor (“bailiff, steward, beadle”). According to Taylor (2006), perhaps ultimately from Pictish (cf. Welsh maeroni (“the office or district of a steward”).

Words formed from Mearns

  • Mearns quail
  • Mearns's flying fox
  • Mearns's grasshopper mouse
  • Mearns's pocket gopher
  • Mearns's pouched mouse
  • Mearns's squirrel

Phrases with Mearns

Questions about Mearns

What does Mearns mean?
Mearns means a surname from Scottish Gaelic.
What part of speech is Mearns?
Mearns is a proper noun.

Words near Mearns in the dictionary

  1. meare
  2. meares
  3. Meares-Irlen syndrome
  4. mearing
  5. mearings
  6. Mearns
  7. Mearns quail
  8. Mearns quails
  9. Mearnses
  10. mears
  11. Mearses

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