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Meroving
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English
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From Medieval Latin Merovingus, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *Mārīwīg [a male given name composed of *mārī (“famous”) + *wīg (“fight”)] + *-ing. By surface analysis, Merovech + -ing.
Cognate with Old English Merewīoingas (a hapax legomenon in the genitive case).
Pronunciation
Noun
Meroving (plural Merovings)
- A descendant of Merovech; a Merovingian.
- 1631, John Selden, Titles of Honor, page 51:
- The French had their Merouings, the old Kentiſh Kingdome here its Oiſcings, from Merouee and Oiſca.
- 1875, James Stephen, Lectures on the History of France, page 686:
- Though the long-haired Merovings ruled from the Ebro to the Meuse […]
- 1898, Charles Oman, The Dark Ages, 476–918, page 159:
- The Franks only found salvation in the growth of checks on the royal power by the development of the great provincial governors, and by the final deposition of the Merovings in favour of the great house of the descendants of St. Arnulf, the Mayors of the Palace, whose strong hand at last stayed the fratricidal wars of the seventh century.
- 1902, Arthur Hassall, A Handbook of European History 476–1871, page 13:
- THE FALL OF THE MEROVINGS AND THE RISE OF THE CAROLINGS
- 1932, George Philip Baker, Charlemagne and the United States of Europe, page 220:
- The decline of the Merovings was not due to some mysterious force incomprehensible to the human brain.
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Translations
descendant of Merovech — see also Merovingian
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