mörk
Swedish
/møːrk/
adj
Definitions
- dark (having an absolute or relative lack of light)
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
- murk English
- murken English
- murklins English
- murksome English
- murky English
- *mergʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- mørk Norwegian Bokmål
- *merkuz Proto-Germanic
- *mirkwijaz Proto-Germanic
- *mirkwiz Proto-Germanic
- förmörka Swedish
- hyad Swedish
- junco Swedish
- mörka Swedish
- mörker Swedish
- mörkhyad Swedish
- mörkna Swedish
- mörkögd junco Swedish
- ögd Swedish
- mørk Norwegian Nynorsk
- mørker Norwegian Nynorsk
- mirce Old English
- merke Middle English
- myrkr Old Norse
- mørk Danish
- mørke Danish
- mørkeblond Danish
- myrkur Icelandic
- morca Galician
- myrkur Faroese
- myrker Old Swedish
- mörk Westrobothnian
- mørker Scanian