Words that come from Frankish “marku”

172 words across 58 languages descend from Frankish marku — including March, marquis, macho, marquee, machete, machismo, marquise, martinet.

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English (34)

Spanish (22)

Portuguese (14)

Old French (9)

French (8)

Latin (7)

Italian (6)

Ido (3)

Middle English (3)

Late Latin (3)

Burmese (2)

Galician (2)

Tagalog (2)

Russian (2)

Indonesian (2)

Esperanto (2)

Cebuano (2)

Georgian (2)

Greek (2)

Dutch (2)

Hindi (2)

Norman (2)

German (2)

Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl (2)

Medieval Latin (2)

Turkish (1)

Sicilian (1)

Hawaiian (1)

Urdu (1)

Hausa (1)

Cornish (1)

Catalan (1)

Telugu (1)

Maori (1)

Asturian (1)

Emilian (1)

Friulian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)

Middle French (1)

Scots (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

Persian (1)

Bengali (1)

Malay (1)

Assamese (1)

Finnish (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Swahili (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Leonese (1)

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl (1)

Antillean Creole (1)

Aragonese (1)

Old Portuguese (1)