murth
plenty; abundance
Noun English, Northern
- plenty; abundance
Origin
Uncertain.
Noun UK, dialectal
- murder; slaughter.
Origin
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”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moort (“murder”), West Frisian moard (“murder”), Dutch moord (“murder”), German Low German Moord (“murder”), German Mord (“murder”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish mord (“murder”), Faroese and Icelandic morð (“murder”), Asturian, Aragonese, Leonese, and Spanish muerte (“death”), Asturian and Leonese muertu (“dead”), Aragonese and Spanish muerto (“dead”), Catalan mort (“death, dead”), French mort (“death”), morte (“dead”), Galician, Italian, and Portuguese morte (“death”), Galician, Italian, and Portuguese morto (“dead”), Mirandese muorte (“death”), muorto (“dead”), Romanian...