murk

Senso (Inglese)

Adj

Dark, murky.

Noun

Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.

Verb

To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.

Verb

To murder or seriously injure.

sinonimi

darkness

dark

gloom

mirk

murkiness

tenebrous

gloomy

darken

fogginess

obscure

obscurity

fog

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somber

sombre

twilight

twilit

laky

ambiguous

roiled-up

cheerless

dim

dinginess

dismal

dusk

dusky

feculent

fishy

indistinct

overcast

sallow

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/mɝk/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: merke

Ereditato da inglese antico: mirce

Affine danese: mørk

Affine norvegese: mørk

Affine svedese: mörk

Affine islandese: myrkur

Affine albanese: murg

Affine lituano: márgas

Affine greco antico: ἀμορβός

Ereditato da inglese medio: mirke

Ereditato da inglese medio: mirken

In summary

From Middle English merke, mirke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“dark, gloomy, evil”) and Old Norse myrkr (“dark, murky”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”). Cognate Danish mørk (“dark”), Norwegian mørk (“dark”), Swedish mörk (“dark”), Icelandic myrkur (“dark”), as also Albanian murg (“dark”), Proto-Slavic *morkъ (“darkness”), Lithuanian márgas (“multicolored”), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, “dark”).