From Middle English murth, morth, from Old English morþ, from Proto-Germanic *murþą, from Proto-Indo-European *mer-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moort, West Frisian moard, German Low German Moord, German Mord, Danish mord, Swedish mord, Icelandic morð.
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