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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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marn
,
marin
verb
1
to fight with the hands
19-
.
2
to wrangle
20
.
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mar
,
carm
etymology:
perhaps a development from Hindi
mārna
‘to strike’; sense 1 attested by
SS
; collected by Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies