Where does “mers” come from?

mers (Romanian) comes from Latin mersus, from Latin mergō, from Proto-Indo-European *mésgeti, from Proto-Indo-European mesg- — to dip, sink.

mers (Romanian): past participle of merge; going, walking,...

Definitions

  1. past participle of merge; going, walking,...

Ancestry of “mers”, step by step

mers traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin mersus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmersusplunging
2Latinmergōto dip (in), immerse; plunge into water; drown
3Proto-Indo-European*mésgetito sink
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmesg-to dip, sink

via Romanian merge

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianmergeto go; to walk

Words derived from “mers”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European mesg- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European *mésgeti →Every word from Latin mergō →