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▪ Lane vii 1885 (#MRS) reproduces the opinion held by al-Zabīdī in TA that the word is from EgAr and that the final n »perhaps… is a radical letter«.
▪ Nişanyan (08Sep2014): Tu mersin is from nGrk myrsíni, from oGrk mýrsinos, mýrsinē, from mýrtos. The Ar form looks as if it came from the same source. Accord. to Nişanyan, the Pers form murd perhaps points to a common origin of the Pers and Grk words in an Anatolian language.

▪ Kluge2002: Ge Myrte C10, from Lat murtus, myrtus, from Grk mýrtos, from a Sem source.
▪ EtymOnline: Engl myrtle c.1400, from oFr mirtile, from mLat myrtillus, dimin. of Lat mýrtus ‘myrtle tree’, from Grk mýrtos ‘the myrtle, a sprig of myrtle’, from same Sem source as Grk mýrrha – see ↗murr.

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MRḌ مرض

√MRḌ

“root”

▪ MRḌ_1 ‘to be(come) sick, fall ill; illness’ ↗mariḍa, ↗maraḍ
▪ MRḌ_2 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to be sick, to be taken ill, to nurse; affliction; pest, to be weak; to be of bad judgement; to be hypocritical, to have doubt’

▪ BAH2008 gives the variety of meanings attached to √MRḌ in ClassAr as: ‘to be sick, be taken ill; to nurse; affliction; pest, to be weak; to be of bad judgment; to be hypocritical, have doubt’.
▪ Original meaning in Sem probably ‘to feel or cause pain’, whence the values ‘to be grievous’, ‘be difficult’, and ‘to be strong’ in a number of Sem languages (↗mariḍa).

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