merkki

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • mark, sign
  • character written or printed symbol, or letter, one of the basic elements making up a text file or string
  • symbol character, glyph or material object representing an idea, concept or object
  • circumstance
  • brand, make, label
  • sign, omen

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Swedish mærki derived from Old Norse merki (celery, boundary) derived from Proto-Germanic *markō (boundary, boundary marker, region, border, marker, area, edge, rim).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*markō

Gloss

boundary, boundary marker, region, border, marker, area, edge, rim

Concept
Semantic Field

Social and political relations

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

端, 縁

Emoji

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