mörker
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- darkness (a complete or (more often) partial absence of light (1))
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish myrker inherited from Old Norse myrkr (dark, gloom, darkness, murky) inherited from Proto-Germanic *merkuz (dark).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*merkuz
Gloss
dark
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
暗, 闇, 冥
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *mergʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- mørk Norwegian Bokmål
- *merkuz Proto-Germanic
- *mirkwijaz Proto-Germanic
- *mirkwiz Proto-Germanic
- mörk Swedish
- mørk Norwegian Nynorsk
- mørker Norwegian Nynorsk
- mirce Old English
- myrkr Old Norse
- mørk Danish
- mørke Danish
- myrkur Icelandic
- morca Galician
- myrkur Faroese
- myrker Old Swedish
- mörk Westrobothnian
- mørker Scanian