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English word origin

Etymology of murth

From Middle English murth, morth, from Old English morþ (“death, destruction, homicide, murder; deadly sin”), from Proto-West Germanic *morþ, from Proto-Germanic *murþą (“death, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós

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Source etymology 1

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noun

murder; slaughter.

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From Middle English murth, morth, from Old English morþ (“death, destruction, homicide, murder; deadly sin”), from Proto-West Germanic *morþ, from Proto-Germanic *murþą (“death, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós (“dead”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moort (“murder”), West Frisian moard (“murder”), Dutch moord (“murder”), German Low German Moord (“murder”), German Mord (“murder”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish mord (“murder”), Faroese and Icelandic morð (“murder”), Asturian, Aragonese, Leonese, and Spanish muerte (“death”), Asturian and Leonese muertu (“dead”), Aragonese and Spanish muerto (“dead”), Catalan mort (“death, dead”), French mort (“death”), morte (“dead”), Galician, Italian, and Portuguese morte (“death”), Galician, Italian, and Portuguese morto (“dead”), Mirandese muorte (“death”), muorto (“dead”), Romanian moarte (“death”), mort (“dead”), Latin mors (“death”), mortuus (“dead”), Ancient Greek βροτός (brotós, “mortal man”), μορτός (mortós, “mortal”), Latvian *mirtis (“death”), Lithuanian mirti̇̀s (“death”), Belarusian смерць (smjercʹ, “death”), мёртвы (mjórtvy, “dead”), Bulgarian смърт (smărt, “death”), мъ́ртъв (mắrtăv, “dead”), Czech smrt (“death”), mrtvý (“dead”), Macedonian смрт (smrt, “death”), мртов (mrtov, “dead”), Polish śmierć (“death”), martwy (“dead”), Russian and Ukrainian смерть (smertʹ, “death”), Russian мёртвый (mjórtvyj, “dead”), Serbo-Croatian smȑt (“death”), mr̀tav (“dead”), Slovak smrť (“death”), mŕtvy (“dead”), Slovene smȓt (“death”), mŕtəv (“dead”), Ukrainian ме́ртви́й (mértvýj, “dead”), Armenian մահ (mah, “death”), մարդ (mard, “man, person”), Persian مرد (mard, “man”), مرده (morde, “dead”), Sanskrit मृत (mṛta, “dead”), मर्त (marta, “mortal, man”).

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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗
noun

plenty; abundance

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