mirken
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English mirkenen, merknen, from Old Norse myrkna (“to darken”). Cognate with Icelandic myrkna (“to darken”), Swedish mörkna (“to get dark, darken”), Danish mørkne (“to darken”), equivalent to mirk + -en. More at murk.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪn
Verb[edit]
mirken (third-person singular simple present mirkens, present participle mirkening, simple past and past participle mirkened)
- (intransitive, Scotland, rare) To grow dark.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:mirken.
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