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Where does “Mars” come from?

Mars (German) comes from Latin Mārs, from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos — -y, -ic.

Ancestry of “Mars”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinMārs—
2Proto-Indo-European-ḱos-y, -ic
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