Words that come from Frankish “marku”

304 words across 84 languages descend from Frankish marku — including remarkable, march, remark, remarkably, marquis, REM, rem, unremarkable.

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English (39)

Spanish (34)

French (24)

Italian (16)

Romanian (15)

Portuguese (12)

Old French (10)

Swedish (9)

German (9)

Catalan (7)

Polish (7)

Indonesian (6)

Esperanto (6)

Finnish (6)

Latin (5)

Ido (4)

Russian (4)

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Tagalog (3)

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Norwegian Bokmål (3)

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Ottoman Turkish (2)

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