Where does “mergr” come from?

mergr (Old Norse) comes from Proto-Germanic mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European mozgos.

mergr (Old Norse): marrow

Definitions

  1. marrow

Ancestry of “mergr”, step by step

mergr traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Germanic mazgą

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicmazgąmarrow
2Proto-Indo-Europeanmozgos—

via Proto-Germanic mazgaz

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicmazgaz—

Words derived from “mergr”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European mozgos →Every word from Proto-Germanic mazgą →
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