Word Origin Summary

Mark is attested in German. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. markeMiddle High Germaninherited from
2. *mozgosProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
3. marcMiddle High Germaninherited from
4. *mazgąProto-West Germanicinherited from
5. markaOld High Germaninherited from
6. *markuProto-West Germanicinherited from
7. *maʀgProto-West Germanicinherited from
8. margOld High Germaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• marco

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• marco

  Spanish · borrowed from

• ម៉ាក

  Central Khmer · borrowed from

• marka

  HBS · borrowed from

• mak

  Tok Pisin · borrowed from

• mác

  Vietnamese · derived from

• morek

  Czech · borrowed from

• מאַרק

  YID · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root