murk

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• General-American: /mɝk/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɜːk/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)k
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• CMU ARPABET: M ER1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English merke, mirke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“dark, gloomy, evil”) and Old Norse myrkr (“dark, murky”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergw- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”). Cognate Danish mørk (“dark”), Norwegian mørk (“dark”), Swedish mörk (“dark”), Icelandic myrkur (“dark”), as also Albanian murg (“dark”), Proto-Slavic *morkъ (“darkness”), Lithuanian márgas (“multicolored”), murzinas (“dirty, spoiled”), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, “dark”).

From Middle English mirke, merke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“darkness, gloom”) and Old Norse myrkr (“darkness, gloom”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkwą, *mirkwiz (“darkness”), Proto-Indo-European *mergw- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).

From Middle English mirken, probably from Old Norse myrkja, myrkva (“to make dark, darken”), from Proto-Germanic *mirkwijaną, *mirkwajaną (“to make dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergw- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).

Possibly an alteration of merc, from clipping of mercenary. First attested in the 1990s.

18 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: мрак (mrak) — darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
• Czech: temno — darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
• Czech: temnota — darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
• Czech: tma — darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
• Czech: šero — darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
• Polish: ciemność — darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
• Polish: mrok — darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
• Russian: тьма (tʹma) — darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
• Russian: темнота́ (temnotá) — darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
• Russian: мрак (mrak) — darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
• Ukrainian: морок (morok) — darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
• Ukrainian: темрява (temrjava) — darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
• Ukrainian: пітьма (pitʹma) — darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
• Bulgarian: затъмнявам (zatǎmnjavam) — to make murky or to be murky
• Polish: mętnieć — to make murky or to be murky
• Polish: zmętnieć — to make murky or to be murky
• Russian: затмевать (zatmevatʹ) — to make murky or to be murky
• Spanish: enturbiar — to make murky or to be murky