marrtë
Albanian
Verb
Etymology 2
Cognate to Albanian marrë; both from Proto-Albanian *marsa[1] (from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”); Proto-Indo-European *h₂mergʷ- (“dark”)).
Cognate to Proto-Slavic *morkъ (“darkness”), *morxъ (“dusk, fog”), Proto-Slavic *mergъ (“brown”), Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, “dark”), Lithuanian márgas (“colorful”). Also related to Albanian murg (“dark”), murgët (also derived from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”)).
Adjective
i marrtë[2]
Further reading
References
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “marrtë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 246
- Oda Buchholz, Wilfried Fiedler, Gerda Uhlisch (2000) Langenscheidt Handwörterbuch Albanisch, Langenscheidt Verlag, →ISBN, page 302 (márrtë Adj (murky, dim, etc.))
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