Where does “myrker” come from?

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

myrker (Old Swedish): dark; hidden, obscured; sneaky, insidious

Definitions

  1. dark; hidden, obscured; sneaky, insidious

Ancestry of “myrker”, step by step

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

Words derived from “myrker”

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