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mark

Pronunciation: /mark/

“mark” is a Swedish word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. ground (surface of the Earth (or some other planet, etc.), or the area (immediately) beneath it)
  2. land, ground (area of ground)
  3. soil (land belonging to someone, when idiomatic in English)
  4. territory
  5. land in its natural state, wild land
  6. ground (distance, etc., similar to English – sometimes figuratively)
  7. mark (currency)
  8. mark (unit of weight)
  9. counter, marker

Etymology

From Old Swedish mark, from Old Norse mǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with Latin margo (“border, edge”)―and hence English margin―and also with Old Irish mruig, bruig (“border, march”).

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