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Attested in local Latin documents since the 9th century ("per marcas certas et sinales"), together with the related terms marco(“landmark”), marcar(“to mark”) and demarcar(“to demarcate”).[1] Given its early local documentation and its productivity, it is not a borrowing from Italian,[2] but from Gothic or Suevic.[3] Ultimately from Proto-Germanic*marką(“mark”), from Proto-Indo-European*merǵ-(“boundary, border”).
1347, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 425:
Vendo et para senpre outorgo a uos don Martin, abbade do moesteiro de San Cloyo et ao conuento desse lugar et a toda uoz desse moesteiro todo o meu quinon da Torre de Sposende, assi conmo esta marcada a derredor per cluzes et marcas, con sua pedra et madeyra et tella, con seus eyxidos et con suas entradas, por preço nomeado, quinentos soldos desta moneda que ore corre
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “marca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “marca”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 653
^ marca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)