Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
A blemish.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
Inherited from Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, disturb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), dialectal German merren (“to entangle”), Icelandic merja (“to bruise, crush”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”), Armenian մոռանալ (moṙanal, “to forget, fail”), Sanskrit मृष् (mṛṣ, “forget, neglect”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionmerrenenm
- Inherited-form mentionmierranang
- Inherited-form mention*marzijanągem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*mers-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionmersco
- Cognate mentionmarrennl
- Cognate mentionmerrende
- Cognate mentionmerjais
- Cognate mention𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽got
- Cognate mentionmirštilt
- Cognate mentionմոռանալhy
- Cognate mentionमृष्sa · forget, neglect
Inspect preserved source fields
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