Word Origin: Mermite
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:38 pm
Who can define and give the etymology of this word?
Word = Mermite
Word = Mermite
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Word Origin: Mermite
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:24 am
It's kind of funny, I can't find anything in the Webster's Dictionary on the word?
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:27 am
Every time I read the word "mermite", first I think "mermaid" and then I think "thermite"...and then my brain explodes trying to reconcile the two. :-)
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:07 am
I would imagine mermaids like thermite, since it's one of the few fires that will burn underwater. They would use it for having cookouts in the octopus's garden.
...And there's an innovative cookbook: "Cooking With Thermite".
Back to the word though, I'd never heard it until a month ago on this board. It sounds like an invented trademark word to me.
...And there's an innovative cookbook: "Cooking With Thermite".
Back to the word though, I'd never heard it until a month ago on this board. It sounds like an invented trademark word to me.
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:23 pm
Great question. All those years of using the term, and I never thought about where it came from.
I searched Google and I did turn up the official nomenclature: "CONTAINER, FOOD, INSULATED, M-1944"
It replaced the "CONTAINER, ROUND, INSULATED, M-1941, WITH
INSERTS" at the end of the war, but I couldn't find any evidence that it got overseas before hostilities ended.
I searched Google and I did turn up the official nomenclature: "CONTAINER, FOOD, INSULATED, M-1944"
It replaced the "CONTAINER, ROUND, INSULATED, M-1941, WITH
INSERTS" at the end of the war, but I couldn't find any evidence that it got overseas before hostilities ended.
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:19 pm
It was named for Ethel mermite, err merman !
Ethel with Jimmy durante...
http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?mediaURL ... diaType=WM
Yeah,Yeah, I know, lets see you do better !
Ethel with Jimmy durante...
http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?mediaURL ... diaType=WM
Yeah,Yeah, I know, lets see you do better !
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:15 am
Are you sure that's mErmite, not mArmite?
"Marmite" is a cooking pot in French, and this kind of military equipment is called marmite norvégienne "Norvegian marmite" here.
"Marmite" is a cooking pot in French, and this kind of military equipment is called marmite norvégienne "Norvegian marmite" here.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:29 pm
The Mermite is a very useful tool and served many.
Keep trying. To date no one has come up with the correct answer.
Keep trying. To date no one has come up with the correct answer.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:05 pm
Are you saying you know what the answer is? If so, please share it. I'm at the end of my guessing/googling rope with this one. :-)
re: Word Origin: Mermite
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:48 pm
It sounds like an anglicized version of the French word "marmite" (pronounced "mar-mit" as in catcher's "mit") which means "cooking pot". Since I speak fluent French (I'm 3/4 French-Canadian) as my second language, I couldn't help but notice the similarities between the two words ("mermite" vs "marmite").