Etymology

Marne

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Today it means: A right tributary of the Seine, in eastern France, flowing 319 miles east and southeast of Paris through the departments of Haute-Marne, Marne, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne. Full definition →

French Marne ← German Marne
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  1. German · derived fromMarne
  2. French · derived fromMarne
  3. English todayMarne

From French Marne; in the sense of the German town and the place in Iowa named after it, from German Marne.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.