Where does “Maryland” come from?
Maryland is a compound of English Mary, from Latin Maria, and English land, from Proto-Indo-European lendʰ-.
Ancestry of “Maryland”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | mary | A male homosexual |
| 2 | French | marie | first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 3 | Old French | Marie | — |
| 4 | Latin | Marīa | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | Μαρία | — |
| 6 | Hebrew | מִרְיָם | — |
| 7 | Aramaic | מרים | bitter |
| 8 | Biblical Hebrew | מִרְיָם | — |
Words derived from “Maryland”