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English word murder comes from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥-, and later Proto-Germanic *murþrą (Murder.)

*mr̥- (Proto-Indo-European)

*mŕ̥trom (Proto-Germanic)

*murþrą (Proto-Germanic)

Murder.

morþor (Old English)

Great sin or crime, enormity. Murder.

mourdre (Middle English)

murder (English)

(countable) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.. (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.. (uncountable) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.. (uncountable, legal, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death [...]

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