Where does “*mark” come from?

*mark (Germanic) comes from Proto-Germanic marką, from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs — boundary, border.

Ancestry of “*mark”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicmarkąmark, sign, stamp
2Proto-Indo-European*mórǵsboundary, border

Words derived from “*mark”

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