Translation
to murder
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 murdo, 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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