| Today's Word: | *mer-, *mor-, *mrto- |
| Translation: | death, dead, to die |
| Related to: | Greek emorten (died), marainw (I destroy) |
| Latin morior (I die), mortuus
(dead), morbus (disease) - last very probable
Sardinian morrere, morri (to die), French mourir, Occitan mouri, Spanish morir, Catalan morirse, Italian morire, Ladin morir, smurir, Romanian muri, Aromunian muri (he died), Portuguese morrer |
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| Common Celtic *mr@- (to die),
*marvos (dead),
Gaulish marvos, Old Irish marb, Irish marbh, Welsh marw, Cornish marow, Breton maro |
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| Common Germanic *mur-thra- (murder),
Gothic maurthr (murder), Old English morthor, German Mord, English murder, Dutch moord, Frisian moard |
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| Avestan miryeite (dies),
Pushtu mrel (to die), Baluchi murtha, miragh, Wakhi meri-, Ossetic maelyn - strange mutation, maybe not a relative, Tadjik murdan, Persian mordan (to die), mordeh (dead) |
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| Sanskrit marati (dies),
Punjabi merna (to die), Gypsy merav, Lahnda meren, Nepali marnu, Kashmiri marun, Singalese marenawa, Gujarati merwu, Hindi merna, Bengali mora, Marathi merne |
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| Armenian meranim (I die) | |
| Lydian mru-, mruvaa (a stele) - was put on burial stones, therefore the analogue; but not for sure | |
| Common Baltic *mir- / *mer- (to
die),
Lithuanian mirti, Latvian mirt |
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| Slavic *merti (to die),
Ukrainian mereti, mru (I die), Belorussian mertsi, Bulgarian mra (I die), Macedonian umram (I die), Serbo-Croatian mrijeti (to die), Slovene mreti, Czech møiti, Slovak mret', mrem (I die), Polish mrê (I die), Upper Sorbian møec' (to die), Russian umeret' (to die) |
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| Notes: | A very wide-spread stem, and a simple meaning
allowed it to have traces practically in all Indo-European languages. This
stem was very productive, and in Slavic even became a name for a death
goddess Mara. There are different versions about where this
stem came from, but they are all too dissimilar with the truth.
Maybe English to mourn with its analogues in many Germanic languages is also a cognate. |
