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Where does “DEN” come from?

DEN (Translingual) comes from English Denmark, from Afrikaans Denemarke, from Old English Denemearc, 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 “DEN”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishDenmark—
2AfrikaansDenemarke—
3Old EnglishDenemearc—
4Old Englishmearcmark, sign, character; boundary, limit
5Proto-West Germanicmarkuboundary, border
6Proto-Germanicmarkōborder, boundary; region, area
7Proto-Indo-Europeanmorǵ-edge, boundary, border; frontier, border
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