merk

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k

merk (plural merks)

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

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.

• kmer, Kmer

• IPA^(key): /mɛrk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrk

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.

merk n (plural merken, diminutive merkje n)

1. mark
2. logo
3. brand

• (obsolete) merck

• Berbice Creole Dutch: merki
• Negerhollands: merk
• → Indonesian: merek

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

merk

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

• (obsolete) merck

• kerm

• IPA^(key): /mɛrk/

mèrk (plural merk-merk)

1. nonstandard form of merek

• “merk” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from German Marke.

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

merk m inan

1. mark, sign

   Synonyms: znak, céch

• “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]

merk

1. resemblance
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Which mankynde is so fair part of thy werk / That thou it madest lyk to thyn owene merk.

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merk

1. imperative of merke

From Old Frisian merked, from Latin mercatus.

merk c (plural merken, diminutive merkje)

1. market

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