Where does “mard” come from?

mard (English) comes from Middle High German marder, from Old High German mardar, from Proto-West Germanic *marþr — marten.

mard (English): To cosset

Definitions

  1. To cosset

Ancestry of “mard”, step by step

mard traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle High German marder

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle High Germanmarder—
2Old High Germanmardar—
3Proto-West Germanic*marþrmarten

via Hungarian már

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianmáralready (prior to some time), yet (in some questions)
2Proto-Uralicmura-break

via Arabic مَرَض

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicمَرَضdisease

Words derived from “mard”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *marþr →