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Mop derivative c for sc; and also with μυῖα, ‘horse-fly,’ for μύσια, and μύαξ (for μύσαξ), ‘sea-mussel.’ The meaning ‘swamp’ is still current in  and ;.   ,, only, from the   mops,  mops and mop, ‘pug-dog.’ Akin to a  root mup, ‘to distort the face, make grimaces’;  late  muff, mupf, , ‘wry mouth,’  mopper, ‘to wear a peevish look,’  to mop, ‘to gibber,’  moppe, ‘fool.’  , in the sense of ‘stupid fellow, may be explained as indicated by the  word without reference to the name of the  author Mopsus.   ,, ‘morass,’ only from  moras;   moras, moeras,  morass,  mareis. The cognates, as is indicated by the non- accent, are borrowed from ;  marese,  marais,  maragium, ‘morass, swamp.’ The o of the  words is due to their being connected with. Unknown to and.   ,, from the  morchel, morhel, late  morhila, , ‘moril’ ( morille,. ‘moril’); the apparent derivation from  morha-, ‘carrot’ (see ), is explained under. The and  variants maurache, môraåχ, môroχ, present a difticulty.   ,, ‘murder,’ from mort (-des),  and ,  mord, ;   morth,  moord,  and  morð, ‘murder,’ with the common meaning ‘intentional, secret death-blow.’  *maurþ, , is wanting; it is based on pre- mṛto-m, , and  meant ‘death’ simply, as the root mor, ‘to die,’ widely diffused through all the Aryan languages, indicates. the root mṛ, ‘to die,’ mṛtá-m,, ‘death,’ amṛta-m, ‘immortality,’ mṛtas, ‘dead,’ márta-s, ‘mortal,’ amṛta-s, ‘immortal,’ mṛtyús, ‘death’;  mori, ‘to die,’ mortuus, ‘dead,’ mors ( mṛti-s), ‘death’;  mrĕti, ‘to die,’ morŭ-sŭ-mrŭtĭ, ‘death,’ mrŭtvŭ ( mortuus), ‘dead’;  mìrti, ‘to die,’ mirtìs, ‘death,’ In  as well as in  the strong root mṛ is wanting, but its derivatives βροτός, ‘mortal’ (for *μρο-τό-ς), ἀμβροτός, ‘immortal,’ have been preserved;  marb, ‘dead.’ In  the root has assumed the sense of ‘intentional, secret killing,’ the older meaning ‘to die, death,’ supplanted by  and , having be - come obsolete;  mort, ‘dead,’ was borrowed from  mort. further maúrþr,  (in  *mṛtra-m),  morþor,,  to  murder; also  murdiren,  maurþrjan, ‘to murder’; hence  meurtre,  mordrum, ‘murderous deed.’    (1.),, ‘morning,’ from the  morgen,  morgen, ;   morgan,  morgen,  morgen, mergen, ,  morning (with the suffix -ing as in evening),  morgunn and myrgenn,  maurgins, ; the common  term for the first half of the day, commencing with the dawn. It does not obtain, however, in the non- languages, being, like and  ( undaurns, ‘midday’), specifically. The pre- mṛkeno- or mṛgheno- is still obscure; some etymologists connect it with maúrgjan, ‘to shorten,’ but this gives no definite sense for. With greater probability may mrŭknąti, ‘to grow dark,’ mrakŭ, ‘darkness,’ be allied to the  cognates, so that  might be regarded as ‘dawn’;  the development of meaning in. —

, in the sense of ‘to-morrow,’ is from morgen,  morgane,  a , ‘in the morning, especially of the following day, (on) the next day’; similarly  demain, lendemain, from  mane. This use of is unknown to  ;  has á morgun,  to-morrow;  tô morwe,, from morge(n),  morgen, ‘to-morrow.’  is similarly used of the preceding day (see also ). —

, ‘east,’ is similar to the meaning of mane in the  languages. the origin of.

 (2.)., from the  morgen,  morgan, , ‘acre’ (or nearly so); usually identified with  (1), ‘morning's work for a team, the space ploughed by a team in a morning’; similarly  dies, ‘tantum terræ quantum quis per diem uno aratro arare potest.’ So too  diurnalis, ‘a square measure.’  ,, ‘decaying, rotten,’ a and  word with the variant ; a recent derivative of the root murs. See.  ,, ‘mortar (bowl),’ from the  morsœre,  morsâri, ;. allied to, , and 