a neighbourhood of Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands · a surname
köken: The name of the neighbourhood is first attested as Doornbosch in 1899. The toponym derives from doornbos (“thorn bush”). Originally the name of a farm. The surname derives from doornbos (“thorn bush”) or from one of several toponyms.
köken: From Old Swedish hiupon (possibly nominative plural), from Old Norse *hjúpa, from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ. Compare Danish hyben, Norwegian nype, hjupa, Old Saxon hiopo, Old High German hiufo, dialectal German hiefen, hüfen, Old English héope and English hip. The initial n- is the product of metanalysis with a first element in a compound ending in -n, like stennypon (Cognate with Norwegian…
köken: Unknown; often considered to be from a Vulgar Latin *marracīna, *marrūcīna, [Term?] derived from Latin marra (“thorn”), but possibly also from an alteration of Latin malitia, with the influence of the Romanian suffix -ciune. Compare Spanish maleza. Compare also the related Albanian mërqinje, with the same meaning as the Romanian word. Cognate with Aromanian mãrãtsini.
köken: From Proto-Albanian *spernā, from Proto-Indo-European *sper (“spear, stick”), close to Latin sparus (“short spear”), Proto-Germanic *speru (whence Old Norse spjǫr).