{"id":23987,"date":"2025-04-11T14:08:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23987"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:08:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:08:50","slug":"lord-of-the-marches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23987","title":{"rendered":"Lord of the Marches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you pronounce the word <strong>marquis<\/strong>? This is something I was discussing with a friend the other day, and we concluded that there is no one right way to say it.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lightofthemoment\/50752889348\/in\/photolist-2kjRPNm-zsYWM-4Xf1hf-2jwWBR9-2kAd7f4-JJkZkp-2qHcAfM-8Xf9Kb-22iK2gH-2iqLi9y-9HGwHL-uNgLB-HrRjd5-8Xc8d4-G21Hdd-2n3LVK8-24EaPEA-8Xc8nt-2mnVkqe-64vxip-244Pg5o-4UVVdu-YFxLUr-rcuQVu-pmDfg-2oxVptL-2mgp7xc-bkhuWF-25ohe21-2PKZS-2mnVkov-EJVxH-8QxpDU-22FF3FQ-iXTMFp-2nqmGDr-br3XwH-4YemVS-azFbyd-4XaGAD-FuY6bm-2m2CLaW-Erg6Wn-2cYoJ1X-21KRC6j-2omaKrQ-GT2PZ-pmDJD-26ucKBQ-4Ya7dD\" title=\"Marquis de Lafayette\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50752889348_85e2212bf4_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" alt=\"Marquis de Lafayette\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the UK, one way to pronounce <strong>marquis<\/strong> is [\u02c8m\u0251\u02d0.kw\u026as] (mah-kwis), although some people prefer to pronounce it [\u02c8m\u0251\u02d0.ki] (mah-kee). In General American, it is apparently pronounced [m\u0251\u0279\u02c8ki] (mar-kee) or [\u02c8m\u0251\u0279.kw\u026as] (mar-kwis). Other pronounciations are no doubt available<\/p>\n<p>What is a <strong>marquis<\/strong>, you may ask. According to Wiktionary:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke, but above a count. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by letters patent or letters close.<\/li>\n<li>Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus <em>Bassarona<\/em> (or <em>Euthalia<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It literally means &#8220;lord of the march&#8221; (march as in border country), and comes from Middle English <em>markis<\/em> (marquis), from Old French <em>marchis<\/em> (marquis), from Midieval Latin <em>marchensis<\/em>, from Old High German <em>marcha<\/em> (border, march) and\/or Frankish <em>*mark\u014dn<\/em> (to mark, notice), from Proto-Germanic <em>*mark\u014d<\/em> (border, boundary, region,area), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*m\u00f3r\u01f5s<\/em> (border, boundary) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/marquis#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words in English include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>marquisate<\/strong> = the territory held by a marquis, margrave or marchioness; the state or rank of a marquis<\/li>\n<li><strong>marquess<\/strong> = a man ranking beneath a duke and above an earl (an alternative spelling of <strong>marquis<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>marquise<\/strong> = marquee; an oval cut gemstone with pointed ends; a canopy<\/li>\n<li><strong>marquee<\/strong> = a large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment; a projecting canopy over an entrance<\/li>\n<li><strong>marchioness<\/strong> = the wife of a marquess; a woman holding the rank of marquess in her own right<\/li>\n<li><strong>march<\/strong> = a formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands and in ceremonies; to walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does; border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary (<em>archaic, historical<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>margin<\/strong> = the edge or border of any flat surface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Words from the same roots in other languages include <strong>mark<\/strong> (field) in Danish, <strong>mark<\/strong> (ground, land, soil, territory) in Swedish, <strong>margen<\/strong> (margin, edge, leeway) in Spanish, <strong>bro<\/strong> (region, country, land, neighbourhood, border, boundary) in Welsh, <strong>brolo<\/strong> (small vegetable garden) in Italian [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/m%C3%B3r%C7%B5s\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you pronounce the word marquis? This is something I was discussing with a friend the other day, and we concluded that there is no one right way to say it. In the UK, one way to pronounce marquis is [\u02c8m\u0251\u02d0.kw\u026as] (mah-kwis), although some people prefer to pronounce it [\u02c8m\u0251\u02d0.ki] (mah-kee). In General American, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,104,107,110,111,128,10,26,34,44,45,64,67,77,78],"tags":[164,158,138,386,385,387,384,383,281,163],"class_list":["post-23987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-english","category-etymology","category-frankish","category-french","category-italian","category-language","category-middle-english","category-old-french","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-spanish","category-swedish","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases","tag-english","tag-etymology","tag-language","tag-march","tag-marchioness","tag-margin","tag-marquee","tag-marquis","tag-omniglot","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23991,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987\/revisions\/23991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}