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DANISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

mark.

field (wide, open space used to grow crops or to hold farm animals)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun/mark/[ˈmɑːɡ̊]
  1. field (wide, open space used to grow crops or to hold farm animals)

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse mǫrk (“wilderness”), from Proto-Germanic *markō (“border, marker”), cognate with German Mark f (“border land, marches”).

noun/mark/[ˈmɑːɡ̊]
  1. mark (unit of currency, in Denmark from the Middle Ages until 1875, in Germany and Finland until 2002)

    common-gender · historical
  2. mark (unit of weight, especially of precious metals, equivalent to half a pound or 8 ounces)

    common-gender · historical
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse mǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“border, marker”), cognate with German Mark f (currency), originally the same word as the previous one.

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