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Mar derived from the same root as μανδύας, ‘upper garment.’ The  cognates are more probably based on  mantellum, from which  mantello and  manteau are derived.   ,, ‘fairy story, tale,’ of , , from  mœre,  and , ‘tale, fiction, report, information,’ whence in  the  mœrelîn, , ‘short story, fairy story.’   mârî, , mâri, , ‘rumour, information’; an abstract from  mâri ( mœre),  mêrs, ‘known, famed,’ which is recorded by old historians in many  proper names in the form mêrus, mêris; akin to SIav. mĕrŭ in Vladimĕrŭ, ‘Vladimir, Waldemar,’ -μωρος in εγχεσίμωρος, ‘famed for wielding the spear,’  már, mór, ‘great, of repute’; for the  of this primitive  stem mê-ro-, see under.   ,, ‘marten,’ from the  marder (and mader), ,  mardar, ; allied to  mǫrðr, ‘marten,’ and  mearþ (also meard), ‘marten, weasel’ (without the suffix r, like  mart, ‘marten’). Whether we are to assume *marþus or *marþuza remains uncertain. Yet the cognates are probably of genuine origin (from pre- martu-), to which  martus ( martes), with the corresponding  class also point —  martora,  martre,  (whence  marten).    (1.),, ‘marches, frontier,’ from marc, ‘mark, token,’  marcha, , ‘frontier, marches’;   marca, ‘territory,’  mearc, , ‘frontier, territory’ ( march is not based on the  form, the c of which would not have changed to ch, but on  marche, ‘frontier,’ which is of  origin). To marka,, ‘frontier,’ corresponds  mǫrk, ‘wood,’ with a remarkable change of meaning; woods in  times were often the natural boundaries between nations. The meaning of the cognates of ‘frontier’ is supported by their  kinship with  margo, ‘border,’ as well as by  brú (from the  form *mrog), ‘border,’  bruig,  and  bro, ‘district, country, region,’  marz, ‘frontier, marches.’ From  are derived  marca,  marche, ‘frontier.’ See  (2) and.

 (2.),, ‘mark’ (coin), from marc, marke, , ‘mark, half a pound  of silver or gold’;  *marka (whence  marca, which first appears in documents in the latter half of the 9th ),  and  marc,  mǫrk, , ‘mark, half a pound of silver.’ Its origin is obscure; the assumption that , ‘designation, sign’ (with reference to the stamp), is a cognate, is not proved, since   denoted a definite weight, and not a particular coin.

 (3.),, from the  marc ( marges), , ‘marrow, pith’; the  g has been preserved in ;  marg, marag, ,  marg, ,  merg, ,  mearg, ,  marrow,  mergr, , ‘marrow’; in this word r is due to  z, according to the law of rhotacism;  *mazga- is wanting. The latter points to pre- *mazgho-, to which mozgŭ,, Zend mazga,  majjan, ‘marrow,’ all with a normal loss of the aspirate, correspond. The root is majj, ‘to immerse,’ to which  mergere is allied.   ,, ‘mark, token’; from marc ( markes), , ‘sign’;   marke, ‘mark, characteristic’;  mearc, ,  mark,  mark, , ‘sign’;  *mark is wanting. Whether these cognates are connected with those of (1), ‘frontier, marches,’  ‘border,’ is uncertain; the meaning ‘frontier,’ which was proved by the allied languages to be primitive, can scarcely be the starting point for ‘sign’; the contrary is the more probable. It has with greater reason been compared with márgas, ‘variegated.’. From a  class is derived;   marque, remarquer, &c.   ,, ‘jay,’ first occurs in early ; it has passed from the fables of animals into general use; liter. , ‘boundary wolf,’ used in the period as a proper name (Marcolf). Similarly in Reineke Vos, Marquart is the name of the jay, formed from the proper name Marcwart,  ‘frontier guardian.’   ,, ‘market, market-place,’ from markt, market, , ‘fair, market, market-place,’  markât, mërkât, mërchât, ; borrowed in  from the   mercâtus with a  accent; from the same source come  markt and  market. ,, ‘to buy, bargain,’ from marketen, ‘to be at the market, to bargain.’ The e of the  original has been preserved in