merg

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Dutch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch march, from Old Dutch marg, *merg, from Proto-West Germanic *maʀg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos.

Cognate with Limburgish mérg, West Flemish mark, Zealandic merk, Old Saxon marg, Middle Low German marg, Plautdietsch Moakj, Old Frisian *march, West Frisian moarch, Old English mearh, Middle English mary, English marrow, Scots merch, Yola marrough, Old High German marg, Middle High German marc, German Mark, Central Franconian Märch, Luxembourgish Muerch, Vilamovian miök, Yiddish מאַרך (markh), Old Norse mergr, Icelandic mergur, Faroese mergur, Norwegian Bokmål marg, Norn mergi, Danish marv, Swedish märg.

More distantly related to Lithuanian smẽgenys, Old Prussian musgeno, Old Church Slavonic мозгъ (mozgŭ), Russian мозг (mozg), Czech mozek, Polish mózg, Persian مغز, Ossetian магъз (maǧz), Kamkata-viri muǰ.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mɛrx/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: merg
  • Rhymes: -ɛrx

Noun

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merg n (uncountable)

  1. marrow

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: murg
  • Papiamentu: merg (dated)

Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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Compare Persian مرگ (marg).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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merg f

  1. death

Synonyms

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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merg m (definite singular mergen, indefinite plural merger, definite plural mergene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by marg

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse mergr, from Proto-Germanic *mazgaz < *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mozgos, *mosgʰos. Compare Icelandic mergur, Swedish märg, Danish marv, Dutch merg, German Mark, English marrow.

Noun

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merg m (definite singular mergen, indefinite plural mergar, definite plural mergane)

  1. marrow (substance inside bones)
  2. pith
  3. core; essence; spunk

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Romanian

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Verb

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merg

  1. inflection of merge:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Zazaki

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Noun

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merg (for death) merg (for lowland)

  1. death
  2. plain, grassy plain, lowland