Translation
to murder
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Word origin
From the Germanic murder family, German morden and English murder, which Esperanto borrowed for the specifically criminal kind of killing.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Root
- morden
- English cognates
- murder
Examples
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The king was murdered during the night.
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Who murdered the old man?
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He was murdered two years ago.
Esperanto could have managed with , to kill, built from plus the causative -. It borrowed anyway, because the distinction earns its keep: covers any killing, while is deliberate and criminal, exactly the murder-versus-kill line English draws. The murderer is o, the deed , and detective fiction in Esperanto, of which there is more than you would guess, leans on all three. Watch the near-miss with , to die: one vowel apart, and mixing them up reverses who did what to whom.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 12: murdi, maŝino, odoro and 7 more words.