*murþą

Runic: ᛗᚢᚱᚦᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈmur.θɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

death
killing, slaying, murder
a killing in secret where the body was hidden (which was considered particularly shameful)

From Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós (‘dead’), from *mer- (‘to die’).

*morþ (Proto-West Germanic)
- morth (Old Dutch)
  - mord, mort, moort (Middle Dutch)
    - moord (Dutch)
*morþ (Proto-West Germanic)
- morþ (Old English)
  - morth, murth (Middle English)
    - murth (English)
    - murth (Scots)
*morþ (Proto-West Germanic)
- morth, mord (Old Frisian)
  - Morde, Moort (Saterland Frisian)
  - moard (West Frisian)
*morþ (Proto-West Germanic)
- mord (Old High German)
  - mort (Middle High German)
    - Muerd (Luxembourgish)
*morþ (Proto-West Germanic)
- mord (Old High German)
  - mort (Middle High German)
    - Mord (German)
      - mord, morderstwo (Polish)
*morþ (Proto-West Germanic)
- morth (Old Saxon)
  - mōrt (Middle Low German)
    - Moord (German Low German)
    - mort (Low German)
*ᛗᛟᚱᚦᚨ (*morþa) (Proto-Norse)
- murha (Finnish)
*ᛗᛟᚱᚦᚨ (*morþa) (Proto-Norse)
- morð (Old Norse)
  - morð (Faroese)
  - morð (Icelandic)
  - mord (Norwegian Nynorsk)
*ᛗᛟᚱᚦᚨ (*morþa) (Proto-Norse)
- morð (Old Norse)
  - mordh (Old Danish)
    - mord (Danish)
      - mord (Norwegian Bokmål)
*ᛗᛟᚱᚦᚨ (*morþa) (Proto-Norse)
- morð (Old Norse)
  - morþ (Old Swedish)
    - mord (Swedish)