Etymology
1. From Middle Dutch march, from Old Dutch marg, *merg, from Proto-West Germanic *maʀg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos.
2. Cognate with Limburgish mérg, West Flemish mark, Zealandic merk, Old Saxon marg, Middle Low German marg, Plautdietsch Moakj, Old Frisian *march, West Frisian moarch, Old English mearh, Middle English mary, English marrow, Scots merch, Yola marrough, Old High German marg, Middle High German marc, German Mark, Central Franconian Märch, Luxembourgish Muerch, Vilamovian miök, Yiddish מאַרך (markh), Old Norse mergr, Icelandic mergur, Faroese mergur, Norwegian Bokmål marg, Norn mergi, Danish marv, Swedish märg.
3. More distantly related to Lithuanian smẽgenys, Old Prussian musgeno, Old Church Slavonic мозгъ (mozgŭ), Russian мозг (mozg), Czech mozek, Polish mózg, Persian مغز, Ossetian магъз (maǧz), Kamkata-viri muǰ. See: Old English Nouns '
mearh', English Nouns '
marrow', German Nouns '
Mark', Old Norse Nouns '
mergr', Icelandic Nouns '
mergur', Faroese Nouns '
mergur', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
marg', Swedish Nouns '
märg', Russian Nouns '
мозг', Czech Nouns '
mozek', Polish Nouns '
mózg'.
Verbs referencing "merg"
English Nouns
marrow, Swedish Nouns
märg, Russian Nouns
мозг, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
merg.