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mearns

/mˈɝnz/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.22 in modern English

Syllables
mearns
IPA
/mˈɝnz/
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A hamlet in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

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”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

Mearnses (plural)

Phrases

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

Frequently Paired Words

Newton Mearns

Rhymes With

turns returns concerns burns learns earns ferns stearns byrnes tern kearns yearns

Questions

How do you pronounce mearns?
The recorded pronunciation is /mˈɝnz/.
What does mearns mean?
A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Where does mearns come from?
It is traced to Scottish Gaelic.

How to pronounce mearns

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