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Subject: Merken
Author: Merriment   (guest, 144.124.16.28)
Date: March 18, 2004 at 3:12:13 AM
Reply to: merken by michael
I seem to remember something like this turns up in the Domesday Book records for Cornwall. It would probably be mer 'sea' + ken 'hound'. In Welsh a sea-hound (Morgi) is a shark...

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