murder

• vt. 谋杀，凶杀
• n. 谋杀，凶杀
• vi. 杀人，犯杀人罪

来自古英语morthor,秘密杀害，非法谋杀，来自Proto-Germanic*murthra,杀害，来自PIE*mer, 将死，死去，词源同morbid,mortal.-ther,工具格后缀。

murder

murder: [OE] The ultimate source of murder is the Indo-European base *mor-, *mr- ‘die’ (source also of English mortal). Its extension *mrt- produced a prehistoric Germanic *mortam (source of German, Swedish, and Danish mord and Dutch moord ‘murder’) and *murthram, from which comes English murder.
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murder (n.)

c. 1300, murdre, from Old English morðor (plural morþras) "secret killing of a person, unlawful killing," also "mortal sin, crime; punishment, torment, misery," from Proto-Germanic *murthra- (cognates: Goth maurþr, and, from a variant form of the same root, Old Saxon morth, Old Frisian morth, Old Norse morð, Middle Dutch moort, Dutch moord, German Mord "murder"), from PIE *mrtro-, from root *mer- "to die" (see mortal (adj.)). The spelling with -d- probably reflects influence of Anglo-French murdre, from Old French mordre, from Medieval Latin murdrum, from the Germanic root.

Viking custom, typical of Germanic, distinguished morð (Old Norse) "secret slaughter," from vig (Old Norse) "slaying." The former involved concealment, or slaying a man by night or when asleep, and was a heinous crime. The latter was not a disgrace, if the killer acknowledged his deed, but he was subject to vengeance or demand for compensation.

Mordre wol out that se we day by day. [Chaucer, "Nun's Priest's Tale," c. 1386]

Weakened sense of "very unpleasant situation" is from 1878.

murder (v.)

Old English myrðrian, from Proto-Germanic *murthjan (cognates: Old High German murdran, German mördren, Gothic maurþjan; see murder (n.)). Related: Murdered; murdering.

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2. 13 men have been questioned in connection with the murder.

有13名男子因谋杀案受到盘问。

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3. She denied the murder of four children who were in her care.

她否认杀害了她所照管的4个孩子。

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4. Mr Farmer and Mrs Jones both admitted conspiring to murder her husband.

法默先生和琼斯太太都承认密谋杀死了琼斯先生。

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5. I know of no one who would want to murder Albert.

我没听说有人想杀艾伯特。

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