mullered

mullered · adjective, verb¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*mer-“to die; to disappear”
2. Angloromani · derived frommul-
3. English todaymullered

From muller (“to destroy; to beat or thrash; to utterly defeat or outplay”) + -ed (suffix forming past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs). Muller is probably derived from Angloromani mul-, the preterite stem of mer- (“to die”) (compare mullered, mullo (“dead”, adjective); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die; to disappear”)) + English -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs).

mullered · adjective²

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*melh₂-“to crush, grind”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*muldō“dirt, soil; furry growth of fungi, mould”
3. Old English · derived frommolde“earth, soil”
4. Middle English · derived frommold
5. English todaymullered

A variant of mouldered, from moulder (“to decay, rot”) + -ed (suffix forming past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs). Moulder is derived from mould (“loose friable soil; rotting earth regarded as the substance of the human body”) + -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs), probably influenced by mould (“furry growth of fungi”); and mould is from Middle English mold, molde (“loose friable soil, dirt, earth; earth as the substance out of which God made man, and to which the human body decays into after death”), from Old English molde (“earth, soil”), from Proto-Germanic *muldō (“dirt, soil; furry growth of fungi, mould”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”).

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