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Old English · noun

morþ

Part of speech
noun, neuter
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/morθ/
[morˠθ]
Syllables
morθ (1 syllable)
Modern English
murthmurder

Meaning

  1. murder

  2. death, crime

Declension

Declension of morþ
SingularPlural
Nominative morþmorþ
Accusative morþmorþ
Genitive morþesmorþa
Dative morþemorþum

All forms (5)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *morþ, from Proto-Germanic *murþą, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós (“dead”). Cognate with Old Saxon morð, Dutch moord, Old High German mord (German Mord), Old Norse morð. The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek βροτός (brotós, “mortal”) (earlier *μροτός (*mrotós)), Latin mortis (genitive of mors (“death”)), Old Church Slavonic мрѣти (mrěti) (Russian мере́ть (merétʹ)), Lithuanian mirtis (“death”). Compare Old English morþor.

Descendants

murth

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