Etymology

marmennill

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Today it means: A fabled marine male creature usually represented as having the head, trunk, and arms of a man and a lower part like the tail of a fish. Full definition →

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From Icelandic and Old Norse.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.