μαυρός
Ancient Greek
adj-2nd
Definitions
- barely seen, dim, faint, shadowy
- dark
- sightless, blind
- unknown, uncertain, obscure
- inconspicuous
- weak, feeble
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (darken, be dark, flicker, dark, coloured).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mergʷ-
Gloss
darken, be dark, flicker, dark, coloured
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
暗, 闇, 冥
Emoji
🌑 🕶️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Maurus Latin
- Maure German
- mór Hungarian
- More French
- maure French
- moro Spanish, Castilian
- Μαυρούσιος Ancient Greek
- Μαυρός Ancient Greek
- Μαῦρος Ancient Greek
- *mergʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥wós Proto-Indo-European
- maurer Norwegian Bokmål
- *merkuz Proto-Germanic
- *mirkwiz Proto-Germanic
- myrkr Old Norse
- More Old French
- maure Old French
- mero Galician
- morca Galician
- maur Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- κατάμαυρος Greek (modern)
- μαυροπούλι Greek (modern)
- μαυροψάρονο Greek (modern)
- μαύρος Greek (modern)
- ολόμαυρος Greek (modern)
- πάμμαυρος Greek (modern)
- Mōr Old High German
- marb Old Irish
- murg Albanian
- mouro Old Portuguese
- *marwos Proto-Celtic
- *mergi- Proto-Celtic
- муринъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- maro Breton
- *murga Proto-Albanian
- *marw Proto-Brythonic