See also: Merk and Mérk

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Noun

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merk (plural merks)

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

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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.

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Dutch

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Etymology 1

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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.

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merk n (plural merken, diminutive merkje n)

  1. mark
  2. logo
  3. brand
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  • Berbice Creole Dutch: merki
  • Negerhollands: merk
  • Indonesian: merek

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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merk

  1. inflection of merken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative
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Indonesian

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

  1. Nonstandard form of merek.

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Kashubian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Marke.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛrk/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrk
  • Syllabification: merk

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merk m inan

  1. mark, sign
    Synonyms: znak, céch

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  • 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

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merk

  1. resemblance

Norwegian Bokmål

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merk

  1. imperative of merke

West Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian merked, from Latin mercatus.

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merk c (plural merken, diminutive merkje)

  1. market

Further reading

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