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Baltic etymology :

Proto-Baltic: *merd=ē̂- vb., *merd-el-ia- c., -iā, -ā̂ f. (AC/CIRC)

Meaning: starve

Indo-European etymology: Indo-European etymology

Lettish: mẽrdêt, mèrdêt (-ẽju) `die nötige Nahrung nicht geben, hungern lassen; einen Sterbenden abwarten', mḕrdelis, f. mḕrdele, mḕrdal'a² 'verhungertes, dem Tode nahe Wesen; jemand, der rinrn hungern lässt', mḕrdelêt tr. 'mergeln, hungern lassen; mêrdelêt² intr. wenig essend abmagern; ohnmächtig werden', mẽrdelêt 'sich grämen'

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Indo-European etymology :

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Proto-IE: *(a)merd-, *smerd-

Meaning: to damage, to destroy

Tokharian: A, B märtk- 'shave' (Adams 455)

Old Indian: mr̥dnā́ti, márdati, caus. mardayati, ptc. mr̥ditá- `to press, squeeze, crush, pound, smash'

Avestan: marǝd- `vernichten'

Armenian: mart `Kampf'

Old Greek: amérdō `berauben'

Baltic: *merd=ē̂- vb., *merd-el-ia- c., -iā, -ā̂ f. (AC/CIRC)

Germanic: *smirt-a- vb., *smart-ō- vb., *smartian- vb.

Latin: mordeō, -ēre, momordī (/ -morsī), morsum `beissen (auch von Hitze und Kälte); kauen, essen'; morsus, -ūs m. `Biss, Bisswunde', morsum n. `Bisschen'

Russ. meaning: повреждать, уничтожать

References: WP II 276 f (different in Pok.)

Comments: On the Baltic level seems to be a derivate from 'die', but this may be a secondary reanalysis.

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Germanic etymology :

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Proto-Germanic: *smirtan-, *smartōn-, *smartian- vb.

Meaning: ache; break

IE etymology: IE etymology

Old English: smeortan `schmerzen'; smeart `pijnlijk'

Middle English: smerte

English: smart

East Frisian: murt `bröckelige Masse, Griess, Staub'

Middle Dutch: smerte, smarte f. `pijn, wond, smart'

Dutch: smart f.; smarten, smerten st., wk.

Middle Low German: smerte, smērte, smarte; smerten, smarten `schmerzen'

Low German: murten `zerfallen'

Old High German: smerzan st. (8.Jh.) `schmerzen', smerza (9.Jh.) { smerzo m. `Schmerz' }

Middle High German: smërze wk. m., st. f. 'Schmerz'; gen. adv. murzes 'gänzlich, bis aufs letzte stück', { murz `Stumpf' }; smërzen st. intr. 'schmerzen', smɛrzen wk. tr. 'in schmerz verwandeln', EHG obd. smir(t)zen (bis ins 17.Jh.), schmerzen (tr.)

German: Schmerz M., schmerzen; schweiz. murz, morz `kleine Stückchen'

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