Where does “marchant” come from?

marchant (Old French) comes from Latin mercans, from Latin mercor, from Latin merx, from Proto-Italic *merks.

Ancestry of “marchant”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmercanstrading
2LatinmercorI trade, deal, sell
3Latinmerxmerchandise, commodity; goods, wares
4Proto-Italic*merks—

Words derived from “marchant”

Every word from Proto-Italic *merks →Every word from Latin merx →Every word from Latin mercor →