Etymograph

English

Marne

Marne comes from French Marne, from Proto-Celtic *mātīr ‘mother’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*méh₂tēr‘mother’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Celticc. 1300–800 BCE*mātīr‘mother’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Celtic, derivedc. 1300–800 BCE*Mātronāreconstructedderivative of *mātīr
  4. Gaulishc. 500 BCE–500 CEsame formreconstructed
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEMātrona
  6. Frenchc. 1600–presentMarne
  7. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*méh₂tēr‘mother’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Celticc. 1300–800 BCE*mātīr‘mother’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Celtic, derivedc. 1300–800 BCE*Mātronāreconstructedderivative of *mātīr
  4. Gaulishc. 500 BCE–500 CEsame formreconstructed
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEMātrona
  6. Frenchc. 1600–presentMarne
  7. Englishtodaysame form

The story

From French Marne; in the sense of the German town and the place in Iowa named after it, from German Marne.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr ‘mother’

mother, matter, material, matrix, mat, maternal, maternity, materiel, materia, metra, madrigal, 18 more

through Latin Mātrona

matron, 2 more

Today it means

name A right tributary of the Seine, in eastern France, flowing 319 miles east and southeast of Paris through the departments of Haute-Marne, Marne, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr / Marne

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