merk

See also: Merk and Mérk

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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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.

   • 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi‎^[2], Hachette, →ISBN:

     But what I realized was, for however much I want to rep the motherland, be bitter towards America for merking 1/20 of Japan's population, I actually know next to nothing about Japan.

2. (African-American Vernacular, slang) To run.
   • 2014 May 8, Alice Goffman, “How Poor Young Black Men Run from the Police”, in Vice‎^[3]:

     If you hear the law coming, you merk on [run away from]^[sic] them niggas.

Anagrams

• kmer, Kmer

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛrk/

• Audio:

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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

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) merck

Derived terms

• brandmerk
• handelsmerk
• kenmerk
• oogmerk

 

Related terms

• markeren
• 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. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) merck

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 of Indonesia, 2016.

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Marke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛrk/
• Rhymes: -ɛrk
• 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^[4]

Middle English

Noun

merk

1. 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)

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