maar

The story

1. Latin · derived frommare“sea”
2. Vulgar Latin · derived from*mara“standing water”
3. German · borrowed fromMaar
4. English todaymaar

English usage from 1825, from German Maar, of uncertain origin (see the German entry for theories), possibly from Vulgar Latin *mara (“standing water”), from Latin mare (“sea”), and thus a Doublet of mare (“a large, dark plain; a lake on Titan”) and mere (“a body of standing water”).

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