Where does “marc” come from?

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

marc (Old English): mark

Definitions

  1. mark

Ancestry of “marc”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanic*mark—
2Proto-Germanicmarkąmark, sign, stamp
3Proto-Indo-European*mórǵsboundary, border

Words derived from “marc”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs →
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