morþ

From Proto-West Germanic *morþ, from Proto-Germanic *murþą, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós (“dead”).

Cognate with Old Saxon morð, Dutch moord, Old High German mord (German Mord), Old Norse morð. The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek βροτός (brotós, “mortal”) (earlier *μροτός (*mrotós)), Latin mortis (genitive of mors (“death”)), Old Church Slavonic мрѣти (mrěti) (Russian мере́ть (merétʹ)), Lithuanian mirtis (“death”). Compare Old English morþor.

• IPA^(key): /morθ/, [morˠθ]

morþ n

1. murder
2. (poetic) death, crime

Strong a-stem:

• morþbealu

• morþor

• Middle English: morth, murth
  • Scots: murth
  • English: murth

From Old Norse morð, from Proto-Germanic *murþą.

morþ n

1. murder

• Swedish: mord