marle
See also: Marle
English
Noun
marle (countable and uncountable, plural marles)
- (now UK, dialectal) Alternative spelling of marl.
- 1625, attributed to Gervase Markham, “A Discourse of the Weald of Kent; and a Comparison of the Arable Lands therein, with the Other Parts of the Shire: Together with Some Necessary Counsels for the Ordering and Inriching of the Marleable Lands in the Weald, or Generally in Any Part of this Kingdome”, in The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent: Or, A Direction to the Husbandman, for the True Ordering, Manuring, and Inriching of All the Grounds within the Wealds of Kent and Sussex, […], London: […] G[eorge] P[urslowe] for Roger Iackson, […], →OCLC, pages 7–8:
- Marle is indeed, as it is in name, the fat or (marrovv) of the earth: […] it is therfore a fat, oyly and vnctious ground, lying in the belly of the earth, vvhich is of vvarme and moiſt temperature, and ſo moſt fertill, ſeeing that heat and moyſture be the father and mother of generation and grovvth; […] Foure ſorts of Marle be found in this VVeald, knovvne aſunder by the difference of colours, and thereby alſo differing in degrees of goodneſſe one from the other: […]
See also
Anagrams
Bourguignon
Etymology
Noun
marle m (plural marles)
Synonyms
Champenois
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɑ(r)l/
Noun
marle m (plural marles)
- (Troyen, Rémois) blackbird, Turdus merula
References
- Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)[2] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
- Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux[3] (in French), Troyes
Eastern Arrernte
Noun
marle
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman marle, from Late Latin margila.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmarl(ə)/, /ˈmaːrl(ə)/[1]
Noun
marle (plural marles)
Related terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Bliss, A[lan] J. (1969), “Vowel-Quantity in Middle English Borrowings from Anglo-Norman”, in Roger Lass, editor, Approaches to English historical linguistics; an anthology[1], New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, →OCLC, § 40, page 186.
- ^ “marl(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
Noun
marle oblique singular, f (oblique plural marles, nominative singular marle, nominative plural marles)
- marl (mixed earthy substance)