English
kitemark
From kite + mark.
Proto-West Germanic *kūt ‘bird of prey’
Proto-West Germanic *kūtijō ‘kite (bird)’
Old English cȳta
Middle English kyte ‘a kite endemic to Europe, especially the red…’
English kite
Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs ‘edge’
Proto-Germanic *markō ‘boundary’
Proto-West Germanic *marku ‘boundary’
Old English mearc ‘mark’
Middle English mark
English mark
Today it means
noun A certification symbol placed on products by the British Standards Institute, based on the letters B, S, and V.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / kitemark