† marsouinn.

Forms: 1500s–1600s 1800s marsouin, 1600s–1900s marsuin, 1800s–1900s marsoon (Canadian).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French marsouin.

Etymology: < Middle French, French marsouin porpoise (1385; 1086 in Old French in Domesday Book in an isolated attestation), beluga (only in Canadian French) < either Middle Dutch meerswijn or Danish marsvin or Swedish marsvin (see mereswine n.). N.E.D. (1905) gives the pronunciation as (maɹsū·n) /mɑːˈsuːn/.

Obsolete.

Any of various cetaceans, esp. (in early quots., after European French) a porpoise or (in later quots., after Canadian French) the white whale or beluga, Delphinapterus leucas.

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1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde xx. 32 This fish is named Marsouin.

1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 101 The Marsouins are the Sea-hogs or Porposes.

1686 F. Willughby & J. Ray De Hist. Piscium 31 Cimbris Marsuin vel Porcus marinus: Angl. A Porpesse.]

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Marsuin, a name by which many have called the phocæna or porpesse.

1854 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims in Wks. (1906) III. 208 Everybody now appears to me narwhale, porpoise, or marsouins.

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 18 The names [of the white whale] in use are..Marsuin or Marsoon in Canada.

1906 A. Ballard Domesday Inquest viii. 175 Southease (Sussex) paid £4 to the Abbey of St. Peter at Winchester in lieu of marsuins, or porpoises.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	marsouin
释义	† marsouinn. Forms: 1500s–1600s 1800s marsouin, 1600s–1900s marsuin, 1800s–1900s marsoon (Canadian). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French marsouin. Etymology: < Middle French, French marsouin porpoise (1385; 1086 in Old French in Domesday Book in an isolated attestation), beluga (only in Canadian French) < either Middle Dutch meerswijn or Danish marsvin or Swedish marsvin (see mereswine n.). N.E.D. (1905) gives the pronunciation as (maɹsū·n) /mɑːˈsuːn/. Obsolete. Any of various cetaceans, esp. (in early quots., after European French) a porpoise or (in later quots., after Canadian French) the white whale or beluga, Delphinapterus leucas. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Delphinidae > miscellaneous members of porpoisea1425 grampusa1529 marsouin1568 1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde xx. 32 This fish is named Marsouin. 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 101 The Marsouins are the Sea-hogs or Porposes. 1686 F. Willughby & J. Ray De Hist. Piscium 31 Cimbris Marsuin vel Porcus marinus: Angl. A Porpesse.] 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Marsuin, a name by which many have called the phocæna or porpesse. 1854 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims in Wks. (1906) III. 208 Everybody now appears to me narwhale, porpoise, or marsouins. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 18 The names [of the white whale] in use are..Marsuin or Marsoon in Canada. 1906 A. Ballard Domesday Inquest viii. 175 Southease (Sussex) paid £4 to the Abbey of St. Peter at Winchester in lieu of marsuins, or porpoises. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1568
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