Word Origin Summary

*murþrijô is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• myrþra

  English · inherited from

• 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐍂𐌾𐌰

  Gothic · derived from

• mordýř

  Czech · borrowed from

• Mörder

  German · inherited from

• mordyrz

  Silesian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root