Where does “mørk” come from?

mørk (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Old Norse myrkr, from Proto-Germanic merkuz, from Proto-Indo-European mergʷ- — dark, coloured; to flicker; to darken; to be dark.

mørk (Norwegian Nynorsk): dark

Definitions

  1. dark

Ancestry of “mørk”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Norsemyrkrdark, murky
2Proto-Germanicmerkuzdark
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmergʷ-dark, coloured; to flicker; to darken; to be dark

Words derived from “mørk”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European mergʷ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic merkuz →Every word from Old Norse myrkr →
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