merk
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Noun[edit]
merk (plural merks)
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Verb[edit]
merk (third-person singular simple present merks, present participle merking, simple past and past participle merked)
- Alternative spelling of murk (“to murder”)
- 2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 31 May 2018:
- In truth, there are Easter eggs planted in just about every frame of Ready Player One, which never misses an opportunity to insert a recognizable character (hey, is that Jason Voorhees getting merked during the film’s first-person shooter level?) or toss a sop to the faithful.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) to run
- 2014 "How Poor Young Black Men Run from the Police", Alice Goffman, pub. Vice.com May 8, 2014: "If you hear the law coming, you merk on [run away from] them niggas."
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Dutch marc, merc, from Old Dutch marc, from Proto-West Germanic *mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign”), cognate with English mark, German Mark.
Noun[edit]
merk n (plural merken, diminutive merkje n)
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Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
merk
- inflection of merken:
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Indonesian[edit]
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mèrk (first-person possessive merkku, second-person possessive merkmu, third-person possessive merknya)
- Nonstandard form of merek.
Further reading[edit]
- “merk” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Kashubian[edit]
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merk m inan
Further reading[edit]
- “merk”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “znak”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[2]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Verb[edit]
merk
- imperative of merke
West Frisian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Frisian merked, from Latin mercatus.
Noun[edit]
merk c (plural merken, diminutive merkje)
Further reading[edit]
- “merk (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
merk
- resemblance
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Which mankynde is so fair part of thy werk / That thou it madest lyk to thyn owene merk.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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