| 1 | Old French | Marche | — |
| 2 | Latin | marca | boundary-mark, boundary, limit; borderland,... |
| 3 | Frankish | marku | boundary, border; mark, border |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | markō | border, boundary; region, area |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | morǵ- | edge, boundary, border; frontier, border |