Etymology of Weston-super-Mare

[nq:1]What is the etymology of this place name? Did "super" have a meaning here?[/nq]
Super mare (maa-ray) is Latin. Its translation to English would be Weston-on-sea.
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mUs1Ka typed thus:
[nq:2]What is the etymology of this place name? Did "super" have a meaning here?[/nq]
[nq:1]Super mare (maa-ray) is Latin. Its translation to English would be Weston-on-sea.[/nq]
It might be maa-ray in Latin, but in Somerset it's like the female horse.

David
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[nq:1]mUs1Ka typed thus:[/nq]
[nq:2]Super mare (maa-ray) is Latin. Its translation to English would be Weston-on-sea.[/nq]
[nq:1]It might be maa-ray in Latin, but in Somerset it's like the female horse.[/nq]
I think some of the Greek gods flew around on super mares, didn't they?

\\P. Schultz

[nq:1]mUs1Ka typed thus:[/nq]
[nq:2]Super mare (maa-ray) is Latin. Its translation to English would be Weston-on-sea.[/nq]
[nq:1]It might be maa-ray in Latin, but in Somerset it's like the female horse.[/nq]
As it is in the rest of England. I was pointing out that the mare part was the Latin mare = sea.
m.

[nq:2]mUs1Ka typed thus: It might be maa-ray in Latin, but in Somerset it's like the female horse.[/nq]
[nq:1]I think some of the Greek gods flew around on super mares, didn't they?[/nq]
Centaurs dug super mares.

[nq:2]What is the etymology of this place name? Did "super" have a meaning here?[/nq]
[nq:1]Super mare (maa-ray) is Latin. Its translation to English would be Weston-on-sea.[/nq]
That seems to have been the intent, but "super" in Latin means "above" or "over", whereas "on" or "upon" in English place names just means "by" or "beside". I think a better Latin translation would have been "West

[nq:2]mUs1Ka typed thus: It might be maa-ray in Latin, but in Somerset it's like the female horse.[/nq]
[nq:1]As it is in the rest of England. I was pointing out that the mare part was the Latin mare = sea.[/nq]
Hearing John Cleese describe his life there, and not having ever seen the name written out, I assumed the name was from the French, but with an extra word inserted.
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Pat Durkin:
[nq:1]Is (there) any reason for capitalizing "Mare" in the village name?[/nq]
Multi-word place names in English usually get capitalized like book titles, i.e. we capitalize the first word and all other words except for unimportant words like prepositions and articles. In deciding what is a word for this purpose, hyphens are usually% treated as spaces. "Super" is a preposition,

Pat Durkin typed thus:
[nq:2]As it is in the rest of England. I was pointing out that the mare part was the Latin mare = sea.[/nq]
[nq:1]Hearing John Cleese describe his life there, and not having ever seen the name written out, I assumed the name ... the English. I go assuming. Weston-super-mer. Oh, well. Is their any reason for capitalizing "Mare" in the village name?[/nq]
Vil

[nq:1]Village? It's definitely not a village. Population now something like 70,000.[/nq]
Yeah. The "World's Largest Village", Skokie, Illinois, has only some 63,000.
(Of course, that's people who actually live in the village. Who knows how the British count population.)

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