rayar
/raˈʝaɾ/ · B2 · verb
to scratch, gouge
✏️📏 sounds like RAY-ar: a ray of light scratches a line; rayo (ray) → rayar
Rayar comes from raya, a line or stripe, which traces back to Latin radius (rod, beam, ray). To scratch is to draw a line, and to verge on is to touch the line of a boundary. So scratch, mark and border all come from one idea: a line.