Noun: mareel
Sample Sentences
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[…] as bright As the sheenin' mareel o' the sea. [1892, George Stewart, Shetland Fireside Tales: Or, The Hermit of Trosswickness, page 239]
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[…] rushing towards the opposite shore like a streak of mareel […] [1898 October 15, Shetland News]
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This is especially the case in late summer when the sea is aflame with mareel and the boats come and go with illumined wakes while the ghostly fire drips from the oar-blades. [1956, The Scots Magazine, volume 65, page 200:]
Nouns inflected like mareel
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From an unattested Norn term *mareld, from Old Norse mǫrueldr, from marr (“sea”) + eldr (“fire”). Compare Icelandic maurildi, Swedish mareld. See: Icelandic Nouns '
maurildi', Swedish Nouns '
mareld'.
Verbs referencing "mareel"
Icelandic Nouns
maurildi, Swedish Nouns
mareld.