Where does “Marche” come from?

Marche (Middle English) comes from Old French Marche, from Latin marca, from Frankish marku, from Proto-Germanic markō, from Proto-Indo-European morǵ- — edge, boundary, border; frontier, border.

Ancestry of “Marche”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old FrenchMarchelimit; boundary
2Latinmarcaboundary-mark, boundary, limit; borderland,...
3Frankishmarkuboundary, border; mark, border
4Proto-Germanicmarkōborder, boundary; region, area
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmorǵ-edge, boundary, border; frontier, border
Every word from Proto-Indo-European morǵ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic markō →Every word from Frankish marku →