murder

Origin: From , murdre, mourdre, alteration of earlier murthre (see murther), from and , both from , from , from , from , *mor-, *mr̥-. Akin to , , , and morþ. The -d- in the form may have been influenced in part by , from , from (whence the English ), from , murder, from the same root, though this may also have been wholly the result of internal development (compare burden, from burthen). (crows): Attested at least since 1475. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).