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Subject: Re: MERSINA
Author: Anneza   (Authenticated as Anneza)
Date: May 16, 2010 at 11:27:06 PM
Reply to: Re: MERSINA by marina
They seem to be deriving it from Mercy, which in Latin originally meant Wages and came to mean something like Reward ... no idea when it was first used in English as a name, but I'd guess the Puritans rather than the Anglo-Saxons.

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