Where does “marque” come from?

Marque comes from French marque, from Italian marca, from Proto-Indo-European marǵ-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European mereg-, meaning to mark or border.

marque (English): A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction,...

Definitions

  1. A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction,...

Ancestry of “marque”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmarquemark; brand; first-person singular present...
2Frankishmarkmark, sign
3Proto-Germanicmarkōborder, boundary; region, area
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmorǵ-edge, boundary, border; frontier, border

Words derived from “marque”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European morǵ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic markō →Every word from Frankish mark →