merg

Betekenis (Engels)

marrow

Concepten

merg

beenmerg

Geslacht

Onzijdig

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/mɛrx/

Etymologie (Engels)

From Middle Dutch march, from Old Dutch marg, *merg, from Proto-West Germanic *maʀg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos.
Cognate with Limburgish mérg, West Flemish mark, Zealandic merk, Old Saxon marg, Middle Low German marg, Plautdietsch Moakj, Old Frisian *march, West Frisian moarch, Old English mearh, Middle English mary, English marrow, Scots merch, Yola marrough, Old High German marg, Middle High German marc, German Mark, Central Franconian Märch, Luxembourgish Muerch, Vilamovian miök, Yiddish מאַרך (markh), Old Norse mergr, Icelandic mergur, Faroese mergur, Norwegian Bokmål marg, Norn mergi, Danish marv, Swedish märg.
More distantly related to Lithuanian smẽgenys, Old Prussian musgeno, Old Church Slavonic мозгъ (mozgŭ), Russian мозг (mozg), Czech mozek, Polish mózg, Persian مغز, Ossetian магъз (maǧz), Kamkata-viri muǰ.