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in reply to a message by Andy ;—)
Well, there's a town in Turkey called Mersin, so it might have been derived from that.
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According to the following site, Mersina is of Old English, Latin origin, meaning Compassionate, Reward:
http://www.mybaby.net.au/baby-name-full-detail/mersina/78052/1
http://www.mybaby.net.au/baby-name-full-detail/mersina/78052/1
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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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