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7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun half woman and half fish; lives in the sea
originFrom Middle English mermayde (“maid of the sea”), from mere (“sea, lake”) + maid, equivalent to mer- + maid. Cognate with Dutch meermeid (“mermaid”), Middle High German mermaget, mermeit (“mermaid”, > German Meermagd, Meermädchen (“mermaid”)). Compare Old English meremenn, meremennen, meremenin (“mermaid, siren”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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