Where does “mark” come from?

mark (Middle English) comes from Old English mearc, from Proto-West Germanic marku, from Proto-Germanic markō, from Proto-Indo-European morǵ- — edge, boundary, border; frontier, border.

Ancestry of “mark”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishmearcmark, sign, character; boundary, limit
2Proto-West Germanicmarkuboundary, border
3Proto-Germanicmarkōborder, boundary; region, area
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmorǵ-edge, boundary, border; frontier, border

Words derived from “mark”

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