Etymology

marking

M3A1R1K5I1N1G2

Today it means: The action of marking. Full definition →

Middle English marking ← Old English mearcung ← Proto-West Germanic *markungu
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

marking · noun1

  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*markungu
  2. Old English · inherited frommearcung
  3. Middle English · inherited frommarking
  4. English todaymarking

From Middle English marking, merking, merkunge, from Old English mearcung, from Proto-West Germanic *markungu, equivalent to mark + -ing.

marking · verb2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.