Etymology

Welsh Marches

Today it means: The lands in the vicinity of the Welsh-English border. Full definition →

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The story

  1. French · derived frommarche“frontier area, border lands”
  2. English todayWelsh Marches

From French marche (“frontier area, border lands”), Old English mearc (“boundary”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.