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Meaning of Mearc from wikipedia

- Proto-Indo-European root merĝ- for "boundary, border" (cf. Old English "mearc", Old Norse "mark" and Latin "margō") and Gr**** οὖρος (by analogy of Arctūrus/Ἀρκτοῦρος)...
- local or national symbols. In old English the word landmearc (from land + mearc (mark)) was used to describe a boundary marker, an "object set up to mark...
- Beowulf's author often uses various substitute phrases for Grendel's name like mearc stapa ("mark-stepper"), an inhabitant of the borderland....
- story is the earliest known written source for the term "Denmark" (dena mearc), and perhaps also for "Norway" (norðweg). Ohthere's home may have been...
- The name Marcle comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for a boundary field, mearc-leah. Much, in this case, means large or great, from the Middle English...
- homeland the Riddermark, a modernization by Tolkien of Old English Riddena-mearc, meaning, according to the Index to The Lord of the Rings, "the border country...
- ("borderland"). The Proto-Germanic *marko gave rise to the Old English word mearc and Frankish marka, as well as Old Norse mǫrk meaning "borderland, forest"...
- “right” <PAlb *detsa *marǵ-, *merǵ- "edge; boundary, border" mark (< OE mearc); march (< OF markōn) margō (marginis) "border, edge" > margin maryā "limit...
- would have been pronounced and written "marc" rather than the West Saxon "mearc" or the Latinized "Mercia". Anglo-Saxon England portal Lichfield List of...
- ships in expectation of prize money. Marque derives from the Old English mearc, which is from the Germanic *mark-, which means boundary, or boundary marker...