marcher

French

verb
Definitions
  • to walk
  • to travel; to move; to march
  • (figurative) to work, to function
  • to step
  • to cooperate
  • (intransitive) to believe

Etymology

Derived from Old French marchier (trample, stride, march) derived from Frankish *markōn (press with the foot, mark, mark out) derived from Proto-Indo-European *merg- (be dark, flicker, dim).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*merg-

Gloss

be dark, flicker, dim

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