marangon

Venetian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin mergō, mergōnem, from Latin mergus (“diver, loon”).[1] The sense of “carpenter” evolved from “one who repairs ships underwater” (in the Venetian Arsenal).[2] Compare the semantic development of Italian palombaro (“deep-sea diver”), from palumbārius (“a kind of hawk which attacks doves”). Cognate with Romansch marangun (“carpenter”) and Italian marangone (“cormorant”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ma.ɾaŋˈɡoŋ/
  • Rhymes: -oŋ
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ran‧gón

Noun

marangon m (plural marangoni, feminine singular marangona)

  1. carpenter

Descendants
  • → Albanian: marangoz
  • → Cimbrian: marangù
  • → Greek: μαραγκός (maragkós)
  • → Lombard: marangù, marengù (Eastern)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: مارانغوز‎, مرانغوز‎ (marangoz)

References
  1. 1911, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, page 405
  2. See the entry in Buck, Carl Darling (1949) A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
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