Re[2]: [tied] Root of "marten," "sable"

At 12:10:03 AM on Monday, August 15, 2005, C. Darwin
Goranson wrote:

> Perhaps there is an affinity of marten/ Mår(Norwegian)/
> Marder (German) with murder/ mörthr (Norse)/ maurthr
> (Gothic, and a PIE root of *mrt (die/death).

ON <mo,rðr> 'marten' goes with OE <mearþ>, from *marðuz --
OHG <mardar>, <marder>, <mardur> seems to represent an
extended form -- not with <murder>, Gothic <maurþr>, and OE
<morðor>. Did you mean ON <morð> 'murder, death' (OE
<morð>, OSax <morth>, OHG <mord>)?

Brian