morþ n
From Proto-Germanic *murþą, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥-to- (“dead”). Cognate with Old Saxon morð, Dutch moord, Old High German mord (German Mord), Old Norse morð (Swedish mord). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek βροτός (brotós, “mortal”) (earlier *μροτός (*mrotós)), Latin mortis, genitive of mors ‘death’, Old Church Slavonic мрѣти (mrěti) (Russian мереть (meretʹ)), Lithuanian mirtis ‘death’. Compare morþor.