murw

From Old High German murwi, from Proto-Germanic *marwaz. Compare German mürbe (“tender”), Dutch murw (“weak”), English mellow (“relaxed”), Icelandic meyr (“tender”), Swedish mör (“tender”).

murw

1. (Uri) friable, tender, mushy

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 62.

From Middle Dutch murwe, morwe, variant forms of meru, merue (“soft, tender, weak”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *marwaz. Cognate with German mürbe, Old English meru, mearu (“soft, tender”). More at mellow.

• IPA^(key): /mʏrf/, /mʏr(ə)ʋ/

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murw (comparative murwer, superlative murwst)

1. weak, soft

• vermurwen

• → West Frisian: morf, murf