Where does “mørkebrun” come from?
mørkebrun (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål mørk, from Old Norse myrkr, from Proto-Germanic merkuz, from Proto-Indo-European mergʷ- — dark, coloured; to flicker; to darken; to be dark.
mørkebrun (Norwegian Bokmål): dark brown
Ancestry of “mørkebrun”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | mørk | dark |
| 2 | Old Norse | myrkr | dark, murky |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | merkuz | dark |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | mergʷ- | dark, coloured; to flicker; to darken; to be dark |