murth

From 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”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moort (“murder”), West Frisian moard (“murder”), German Low German Moord (“murder”), German Mord (“murder”), Danish mord (“murder”), Swedish mord (“murder”), Icelandic morð (“murder”).

murth (plural murths)

1. (UK dialectal) murder; slaughter.

• murther
• murtherer
• murtherous

Uncertain.

murth (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, northern English, rare) plenty; abundance

• “murth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• thrum