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: 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).
From Old Irish scé (“thornbush, whitethorn”), sometimes declined as an -iā-stem or a dental stem (genitive sciad), but also as a guttural stem, forming the genitive sciach. The dental stem may be original, judging from Welsh ysbyddad (“hawthorn, thornbush”), in which case the ancestor was Proto-Celtic *skʷiyats.