Where does “merked” come from?

merked (English) comes from Latin mercatus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

merked (English): simple past tense and past participle of merk

Definitions

  1. simple past tense and past participle of merk

Ancestry of “merked”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmercatustrade, traffic, buying and selling; market,...
2Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
3Proto-Italic-tus—
4Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “merked”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin mercatus →