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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

mirken en · VERB

Etymology

From 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.

Meanings

  1. (Scotland, intransitive, rare) To grow dark.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:mirken.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
mirkens Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
mirkening Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
mirkened Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
mirkened Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

mirkning · mirkening