mirken
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English mirkenen, merknen, from Old Norse myrkna (“to darken”). Cognate with Icelandic myrkna (“to darken”), Swedish mörkna (“to get dark, darken”), Danish mørkne (“to darken”), equivalent to mirk + -en. More at murk.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪn
Verb
editmirken (third-person singular simple present mirkens, present participle mirkening, simple past and past participle mirkened)
- (intransitive, Scotland, rare) To grow dark.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:mirken.
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