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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *marik.
Noun
mereċe m[1]
- march, smallage (plant)
Declension
Strong ja-stem:
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “mereċe”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*marikan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 35
Portuguese
Verb
merece
- inflection of merecer:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
merece
- inflection of merecer:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative