Where does “հիպերմարկետ” come from?
հիպերմարկետ (Armenian) comes from Russian гиперма́ркет, from English hypermarket, from French hypermarché, from French marché, from French marcher, from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish markōn — edge, boundary, border; frontier, border.
հիպերմարկետ (Armenian): hypermarket
Ancestry of “հիպերմարկետ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Russian | гиперма́ркет | — |
| 2 | English | hypermarket | A combination of department store and supermarket |
| 3 | French | hypermarché | hypermarket |
| 4 | French | marché | market; deal, contract; past participle of... |
| 5 | French | marcher | to walk; to travel; to move; to march; to work,... |
| 6 | Middle French | marcher | to walk |
| 7 | Old French | marchier | to walk; to travel by foot |
| 8 | Frankish | markōn | to mark, mark out, to press with the foot |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | markōną | to mark; to notice |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | markō | border, boundary; region, area |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | morǵ- | edge, boundary, border; frontier, border |