Where does “markedness” come from?
Markedness comes from English mark plus the Old English suffix -nes, derived from Proto-Germanic markō and ultimately Proto-Indo-European mereg-, meaning to mark or bound.
markedness (English): The quality of a word, form or phoneme that is...
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- The quality of a word, form or phoneme that is...
Ancestry of “markedness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | marked | Having a visible or identifying mark; Clearly... |
| 2 | English | Mark | Abbreviation of Markarian |
| 3 | German | mark | — |
| 4 | Latin | Mārcus | — |
| 5 | Latin | Martīnus | — |
| 6 | Latin | -īnus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -īnos | of/belonging to |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -iHnos | Creates adjectives of materials |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -no- | adjectival suffix |