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In Indoeuropean it's only present in the Germanic and Celtic branches (Protogermanic: marhaz, Protoceltic: markos), but in the Far East, as well as Chinese 馬 (mǎ) there's Mongolian морь, Korean 말 (mal), and Japanese うま (uma).

I can't find any Finno-Ugric or Turkic cognates, so it looks like there are two separate clusters.

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In Finnish we still use word "mesi", which is a synonym for honey. The word has the same meaning in Finno-ugric and Uralian languages still spoken in Siberia and Volga areas such as Mari and Udmurt - and Hungarian.

At least the Finnish etymologic dictionary says it's related to Aryan words, e.g. medhu in Sanskrit.

https://kaino.kotus.fi/suomenetymologinensanakirja/?p=qs-art...

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