Where does “mercare” come from?

mercare (Vulgar Latin) comes from Latin mercor, from Latin merx, from Proto-Italic *merks.

mercare (Vulgar Latin): second-person singular present active...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular present active...

Ancestry of “mercare”, step by step

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

Words derived from “mercare”

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