marter

From Middle Dutch marter, maerter, martel, which is generally believed to be a reborrowing from Old French martre, itself from Proto-West Germanic *marþr (“marten”), which see. Alternatively, however, the irregular /t/ (instead of *marder) might be due to a special development of West Germanic *þ in the difficult cluster *rþr (either early stopping to *rtr or otherwise failure to undergo voicing to [rðr]). Compare Low German Moter, e.g. around Paderborn, where French influence is less plausible.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑr.tər/

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• Hyphenation: mar‧ter

marter m (plural marters, diminutive martertje n)

2. marten (mammal)

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marter

1. inflection of martern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

• māerter, martel

Borrowed from Old French martre, in turn borrowed from Frankish *marþr.

marter m

1. marten

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “marter (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

marter ?

1. pains