Where does “markō” come from?

markō (Proto-Germanic) comes from Proto-Indo-European morǵ- — edge, boundary, border; frontier, border.

markō (Proto-Germanic): border, boundary; region, area

Definitions

  1. border, boundary; region, area

Ancestry of “markō”, step by step

markō traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European morǵ-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanmorǵ-edge, boundary, border; frontier, border

via Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-European*mórǵsboundary, border

Words derived from “markō”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European morǵ- →