merx

Etymology
From (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, names of deities), of  etymology. De Vaan relates this word to, deriving them both from a root referring to various aspects of economics, which he presumes to have an origin.

However, in the 2020s, Nikolaev and Matasović independently proposed Indo-European etymologies for merx. Both derivations assume that the simple -c- in the oblique cases was analogically levelled based on the nominative singular, as all velars merged to *-k- when immediately preceding the nominative singular *-s in Italic.
 * Nikolaev reconstructs, relating merx to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.
 * Matasović instead derives this word from a root, whence also , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬, the verbal sense of which survives in 🇨🇬. The connection to Hittite was in fact already suggested by Puhvel (2004). This root may itself be an extension of , for which see.

Noun

 * 1) merchandise, commodity
 * 2) goods, wares