Where does “nom de marque” come from?

nom de marque (French) comes from French nom, from Old French nom, from Latin nōmen, from Latin est, from Proto-Indo-European h₁ésti, from Proto-Indo-European h₁es- — to be.

nom de marque (French): brand, brand name

Definitions

  1. brand, brand name

Ancestry of “nom de marque”, step by step

nom de marque traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French nom

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchnomA name, "especially" a last name or family name;...
2Old Frenchnomname
3Latinnōmenname
4Latinestthird-person singular present active indicative...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁éstito be
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁es-to be

via French marque

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