merg

Dutch

Alternative forms

• marg (dialectal)
• morg (dialectal)
• murg (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch march, from Old Dutch marg, *merg, from Proto-West Germanic *maʀg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos.

Cognate with Limburgish mérg, West Flemish mark, Zealandic merk, Old Saxon marg, Middle Low German marg, Plautdietsch Moakj, Old Frisian *march, West Frisian moarch, Old English mearh, Middle English mary, English marrow, Scots merch, Yola marrough, Old High German marg, Middle High German marc, German Mark, Central Franconian Märch, Luxembourgish Muerch, Vilamovian miök, Yiddish מאַרך (markh), Old Norse mergr, Icelandic mergur, Faroese mergur, Norwegian Bokmål marg, Norn mergi, Danish marv, Swedish märg.

More distantly related to Lithuanian smẽgenys, Old Prussian musgeno, Old Church Slavonic мозгъ (mozgŭ), Russian мозг (mozg), Czech mozek, Polish mózg, Persian مغز, Ossetian магъз (maǧz), Kamkata-viri muǰ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛrx/

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• Hyphenation: merg
• Rhymes: -ɛrx

Noun

merg n (uncountable)

1. marrow

Derived terms

• beenmerg
• door merg en been
• mergpijp
• ruggemerg

Descendants

• Afrikaans: murg
• → Papiamentu: merg (dated)

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Persian مرگ (marg).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛɾɡ

Noun

merg f

1. death

Synonyms

• mewt

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

merg m (definite singular mergen, indefinite plural merger, definite plural mergene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by marg

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse mergr, from Proto-Germanic *mazgaz < *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mozgos, *mosgʰos. Compare Icelandic mergur, Swedish märg, Danish marv, Dutch merg, German Mark, English marrow.

Noun

merg m (definite singular mergen, indefinite plural mergar, definite plural mergane)

1. marrow (substance inside bones)
2. pith
3. core; essence; spunk

Derived terms

• mergfull
• gjennom merg og bein

See also

• marg (Bokmål)

References

• “merg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Noun

merg m

1. Alternative form of mearh

Romanian

Verb

merg

1. inflection of merge:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

Zazaki

Noun

merg (for death) merg (for lowland)

1. death
2. plain, grassy plain, lowland