myrþra
Old English
noun
Definitions
- homicide, murder
- a murderer
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *murþrijô (murder, murderer, death, killing) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (killing), *mer- (die, rub, wear away, sea, gleam, sparkle, pound, glimmer, weave, pack, bind, plait, girl, young boy).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mer-
Gloss
die, rub, wear away, sea, gleam, sparkle, pound, glimmer, weave, pack, bind, plait, girl, young boy
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
海
Emoji
🎲
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ambrosia English
- antemortem English
- antimurder English
- axe-murder English
- daymare English
- immortally English
- morbidity English
- morbidly English
- morbidness English
- mortality English
- mortgage English
- mortify English
- mortmain English
- mortuary English
- multimurder English
- murder English
- murder hornet English
- murderable English
- murderball English
- murderbird English
- murderbot English
- murderee English
- murderer English
- murderess English
- murderest English
- murdereth English
- murderhood English
- murderize English
- murderless English
- murderment English
- murdermonger English
- murderous English
- murdersome English
- murdery English
- murdress English
- murrain English
- nonmurder English
- perimortem English
- postmortem English
- postmurder English
- premortem English
- premurder English
- self-murder English
- unmurder English
- immortālis Latin
- immortālitās Latin
- merus Latin
- morbidus Latin
- morbus Latin
- moribundus Latin
- morior Latin
- morior, morī Latin
- mortālis Latin
- morī Latin
- post Latin
- rememorari Latin
- Mord German
- mort French
- μάρμαρος Ancient Greek
- μαρμαίρω Ancient Greek
- μαρτιχόρας Ancient Greek
- *(s)mer- Proto-Indo-European
- *mer- Proto-Indo-European
- *mer-, *mr̥- Proto-Indo-European
- *mor- Proto-Indo-European
- *mrtro- Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥tro- Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥twós Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥tós Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥wós Proto-Indo-European
- mord Norwegian Bokmål
- *maimrōną Proto-Germanic
- *mairōną Proto-Germanic
- *mari Proto-Germanic
- *marǭ Proto-Germanic
- *murþrijô Proto-Germanic
- *murþrą Proto-Germanic
- *murþą Proto-Germanic
- *mīmrōną Proto-Germanic
- mord Swedish
- mord Norwegian Nynorsk
- *nihtmare Old English
- morþ Old English
- morþbealo Old English
- morþor Old English
- morþorscyldig Old English
- मरते Sanskrit
- मारयति Sanskrit
- मृ Sanskrit
- मृत Sanskrit
- mortally Middle English
- morther Middle English
- murder Middle English
- murth Middle English
- morð Old Norse
- morðari Old Norse
- morðvargr Old Norse
- mord Danish
- *merti Proto-Slavic
- *morъ Proto-Slavic
- *sъmьrtь Proto-Slavic
- *umerti Proto-Slavic
- *umerti, *merti Proto-Slavic
- *umirati Proto-Slavic
- mor Czech
- morð Icelandic
- مرده Persian
- murder Cebuano
- mord Old High German
- murdiro Old High German
- մարի Old Armenian
- morð Faroese
- mort Middle High German
- 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐍂 Gothic
- мрша Macedonian
- *mr̥tyúš Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *márti Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *mártyas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- umrieť Slovak
- *morjōr Proto-Italic
- YMYTWNtn' Middle Persian
- 𑀫𑀸𑀭𑁂𑀇 Maharastri Prakrit
- *merusa Proto-Albanian
- morth Old Danish
- mirin Kurdish