mürbe
German (Berlin)
/ˈmʏʁbə/
adj
Definitions
- tender as meat, mushy as fruit
- crumbly, about to crumble; short as a pastry
- worn-out, fatigued, exhausted
Etymology
Inherited from Old High German murwi inherited from Proto-Germanic *marwaz (mellow).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*marwaz
Gloss
mellow
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mellow English
- melloweth English
- mellowish English
- mellowly English
- mellowness English
- mellowspeak English
- mellowy English
- overmellow English
- unmellow English
- Mürbeteig German
- Teig German
- murw Dutch, Flemish
- *mer(w)- Proto-Indo-European
- *merw- Proto-Indo-European
- *marwaz Proto-Germanic
- mör Swedish
- meru Old English
- melowe Middle English
- meyrr Old Norse
- mør Danish
- mørdej Danish
- murwe Middle Dutch
- murwi Old High German
- mürwe Middle High German
- mierf Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- murw Alemannic German
- mør Old Danish