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- Old English · inherited fromrǣw
- Middle English · inherited fromrewe
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*mōr“moor”
- Old English · inherited frommōr
- English todayMurrow
From Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr (“moor”) + Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English rǣw, rāw.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishmōr all →
MortonmoorMorleyDartmoorMoorhouseMurtonStarmerMoorfieldMorborne
Proto-West Germanic*mōr all →
moor
Middle Englishrewe all →
rowrue
Old Englishrǣw all →
row
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.