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- Old Norse · derived frommyrkna“dark, gloomy”
- Scots · derived frommirken“to grow dark, darken, become overcast”
- English todaymirkning
From Scots mirken (“to grow dark, darken, become overcast”), from Old Norse myrkna (“dark, gloomy”) + -ing (noun-forming suffix), equivalent to mirken + -ing.
Words from the same roots
Old Norsemyrkna all →
mirkenmurken
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.