merk

See also: Merk and Mérk

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k

Etymology 1

Noun

merk (plural merks)

1. Obsolete spelling of mark
2. (Scotland) Alternative form of mark

Etymology 2

Verb

merk (third-person singular simple present merks, present participle merking, simple past and past participle merked)

1. 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.

2. (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."

Anagrams

• kmer

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛrk

Etymology 1

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

merk n (plural merken, diminutive merkje n)

1. mark
2. logo
3. brand

Derived terms

• brandmerk
• handelsmerk
• kenmerk
• oogmerk

Related terms

• merken

Descendants

• Berbice Creole Dutch: merki
• Negerhollands: merk
• → Indonesian: merek

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

merk

1. inflection of merken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Anagrams

• kerm

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛrk/

Noun

mèrk (first-person possessive merkku, second-person possessive merkmu, third-person possessive merknya)

1. Nonstandard form of merek.

Further reading

• “merk” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Marke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛrk/
• Syllabification: merk

Noun

merk m inan

1. mark, sign

   Synonyms: znak, céch

Further reading

• “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

Verb

merk

1. imperative of merke

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian merked, from Latin mercatus.

Noun

merk c (plural merken, diminutive merkje)

1. market

Further reading

• “merk (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011