Merci
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Root
musika
market, trading place
Merci aligns with Shona musika market on merk trade frame
- Confidence
- 42/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- merciFrench
The consensus position
French merci comes from Old French merci ‘favor, pity’, from Latin mercedem ‘wages, reward, favor’, ultimately related to Latin merx ‘wares’, with the deeper base either PIE *merk- ‘trade’ or a loan from Etruscan.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 6 links from the attested form down to the root — the segment-by-segment correspondences, the phonological breakdown and the case for the derivation are behind an account.
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