morþor
Old English
noun
Definitions
- murder
- great sin or crime, enormity
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *murþrą (murder, killing, death) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥-tro-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mr̥-tro-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mortido English
- murder English
- mors Latin
- mortifer Latin
- mortifico Latin
- morte Italian
- meurtre French
- meurtrir French
- *mrtro- Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥-to- Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥-tro- Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥tro- Proto-Indo-European
- *mértis Proto-Indo-European
- myrde Norwegian Bokmål
- *murþijaną Proto-Germanic
- *murþrijô Proto-Germanic
- *murþrą Proto-Germanic
- *murþą Proto-Germanic
- myrde Norwegian Nynorsk
- morþ Old English
- morþbealo Old English
- morþorscyldig Old English
- myrþra Old English
- scyldig Old English
- morther Middle English
- murder Middle English
- murth Middle English
- marbh Irish
- myrða Old Norse
- myrde Danish
- myrða Icelandic
- moarte Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- marb Old Irish
- marbaid Old Irish
- marbán Old Irish
- marbh Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- myrða Faroese
- 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐍂 Gothic
- *marwos Proto-Celtic
- myrþa Old Swedish
- møl Westrobothnian
- *mortis Proto-Italic
- *murþar Frankish
- *murþrijan Frankish
- mursdōd, mursdod Low German
- mort Picard