murth

Forms of murth

Origin of murth

From Middle English murth, morth, from Old English morþ (“death, destruction, homicide, murder; deadly sin”), from Proto-West Germanic *morþ, from Proto-Germanic *murþą (“death, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós (“dead”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moort (“murder”), West Frisian moard (“murder”), Dutch moord (“murder”), German Low German Moord (“murder”), German Mord (“murder”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish mord (“murder”), Faroese and Icelandic morð (“murder”), Asturian, Aragonese, Leonese, and Spanish muerte (“death”), Asturian and Leonese muertu (“dead”), Aragonese and Spanish muerto (“dead”), Catalan mort (“death, dead”), French mort (“death”), morte (“dead”), Galician, Italian, and Portuguese morte (“death”), Galician, Italian, and Portuguese morto (“dead”), Mirandese muorte (“death”), muorto (“dead”), Romanian moarte (“death”), mort (“dead”), Latin mors (“death”), mortuus (“dead”), Ancient Greek βροτός (brotós, “mortal man”), μορτός (mortós, “mortal”), Latvian *mirtis (“death”), Lithuanian mirti̇̀s (“death”), Belarusian смерць (smjercʹ, “death”), мёртвы (mjórtvy, “dead”), Bulgarian смърт (smărt, “death”)...

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Related words

• murther
• murtherer
• murtherous

Questions about murth

What does murth mean?

Murth means murder; slaughter.

What part of speech is murth?

Murth is a noun.

What is the plural of murth?

The plural of murth is murths.