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Mar  and ; the variant with a points to the  a. in, mercato,  marché (whence  and  market).   ,, from the  marmel,  marmul, , ‘marble’; from the  word by differentiating r-r to r-l.   ,, ‘marsh, moor,’ only, a  word. marsch, maersche, ‘pasture ground,’  męrsc,, and the   marsh,  marsk, ‘bog.’  *marisks may be assumed as a derivative of  marei, ‘ocean’ (see ); similarly   is a derivative of  ahwa, ‘water.’   mariscus, ‘marsh,’ and some of the  words connected with it, such as  maresc,  marais,  marese, which may, however, be partly derivatives of  mare.   ,, ‘marshal,’ derived, partly under the influence of maréchal, from  marschale, , which  and  signified ‘horse-servant,’ then ‘overseer of the train of servants on journeys and expeditions, as a municipal or court official; marshal.’  marahscalc is a compound of , ‘servant,’ and marah, ‘horse’; even the Lex Salica and the Leg. record the term mariscalus, besides which, in marscallus occurs. From are derived the  cognates —  mariscalco,  maréchal, ‘farrier, marshal,’ as well as the  version, comes stabuli,  connétable. marah,, marc, , ‘steed, horse,’  mearh,  marr, .;  *marh is wanting. It originated, in exact accordance with the permutation of consonants, from pre- marka-, in which form it is recorded as by Pausanias;  with this  marc and  march, ‘horse.’ There is, however, no linguistic necessity for deriving  marha- from. The word marh, the of which,, has been preserved, was supplanted at a later period by  and then. To this word is akin.   ,, ‘royal or public stable,’ from marstal ( -stalles), , ‘stable for horses.’ For the  marhetal, like  marschalc, for marh-schalc, see ; and with regard to marh-,  the preceding word.   ,, ‘torture, rack,’ from marter, martere, ,  ‘martyrdom,’  ‘the Passion,’ then ‘torture, tor - ment, persecution, rack,’  martira, martara,  (also with l,  martela,  martel); formed from  and  martyrium. The derivative is from  męrterer, marterer,  martirâri, ‘martyr,’ for which the forms martir, martyr,  to - martyr, ‘martyr for the truth of Christianity,’ rarely occur. The Eccles. meaning ‘torture,’ which is foreign to, is found also in the cognates of martyrium. martirio, martyre.   ,, from the  męrze, ,  męrzo, marzeo, , ‘March,’ from  (mensem) Martium. The corresponding märte,  męrte, as well as  maart, make it probable that  was borrowed previous to the  permutation of consonants about the era of the Merovings, and in fact contemporaneously with, , and. March, Mid. marche, was borrowed at a some what later period from march ( mars).   ,, ‘mesh, stitch,’ from mā̆sche,  and  mā̆sca, , ‘mesh, snare’;   mœ̂sce,  mesh,  mǫskve, ;  *mêsqa, *masqa, are by chance not recorded. According to the permutation of consonants, the latter is based on pre- mêzga- (mosga-);  mázgas, ‘threads interlaced, knot,’ which is connected with a  mezgù (mègsti), ‘to tie knots, knit (nets).’ Thus  may be traced to a  root mêsg (pre- and Aryan mē̆zg), ‘to plait.’ <section end="Masche" /> <section begin="Maser" /> ,, ‘vein (in wood), speck, spot,’ from maser, ,  masar, , ‘vein, knotty excrescence on the maple and other trees’ ( also ‘goblet of speckled wood’);   maser, ‘knot in wood,’  measles;  mǫsurr, , ‘maple’ (mǫsur-bolle, ‘maple bowl’). Allied to masa,, ‘wound, scar.’ The  class is the source of  derivatives. madré, ‘speckled,’ scyphi maserini, ‘drinking vessels.’ <section end="Maser" /> <section begin="Maske" /> ,, ‘mask, disguise, masquerader,’ from masque; the   and  maskere is more closely connected with  maschera as well as  mascara, ‘division’;  also  and  masker. Perhaps the origin of the entire class is to be sought for in. <section end="Maske" /> <section begin="Masse" /> ,, ‘mass, bulk, heap,’ from masse, , ‘misshapen stuff, mass,’  ‘lumps of metal.’ Borrowed in the<section end="Masse" />