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to die

Source:*mertiProto-Slaviccertain

Prefixed perfectives. Russian -мере- shows East Slavic pleophony; Polish -mrze-, Czech -mří- and BCS -mrije- the metathesis *er → rě.

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English

to die

Polish

umrzeć

ˈumʐɛtɕ

Cognate· distant (Indo-European)Same source — the sound laws connect them.

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Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
умере́тьumeretʹ
ʊmʲɪˈrʲetʲinherited
Ukrainian
поме́ртиpomerty
pɔˈmɛrtɪinherited
Polish
umrzeć
ˈumʐɛtɕinherited
Czech
umřít
ˈumr̝iːtinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
umrijeti / umretiумријети / умрети
ˈumrijetiinherited
English
to die
Distant English relative: murder — Murder and *merti share the Indo-European root *mer- 'die' (Latin mors).