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mirken

Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)kɪn

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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.

verb mirkens · mirkening · mirkened

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

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@misc{mirken_2026,
  title = {mirken},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mirken},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}