murth
murth · murths
Murder; slaughterMurder; slaughter.
Meaning
2 senses(UK, dialectal)Murder; slaughter.
(English, Northern, obsolete, rare, uncountable)Plenty; abundance
Origin
From Middle English murth, morth, from Old English morþ (“death, destruction, homicide, muFrom 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”).
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