myrþrian
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Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Equivalent to myrþra (“murder, homicide”) + -ian. Compare the noun morþor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]myrþrian
- (prose) to murder (according to the Oxford English Dictionary only attested in the compounded forms amyrþrian, formyrþrian, and ofmyrþrian, and the derived form myrðrung).[1]
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of myrþrian (weak class 2)
infinitive | myrþrian | myrþrienne |
---|---|---|
indicative mood | present tense | past tense |
first person singular | myrþriġe | myrþrode |
second person singular | myrþrast | myrþrodest |
third person singular | myrþraþ | myrþrode |
plural | myrþriaþ | myrþrodon |
subjunctive | present tense | past tense |
singular | myrþriġe | myrþrode |
plural | myrþriġen | myrþroden |
imperative | ||
singular | myrþra | |
plural | myrþriaþ | |
participle | present | past |
myrþriende | (ġe)myrþrod |
Descendants
[edit]- Old English: amyrþrian
- Old English: formyrþrian
- Old English: ofmyrþrian
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “myrþrian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ "murder, v.", OED Online, 3rd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).