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語源

Probably from mort +‎ -kin (compare mortling); or from Old French mortekine, a variant of mortecine, from Medieval Latin morticinus. Compare also Swedish murken (“putrefied”), Icelandic morkinn (“putrid”).

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɹkɪn/, [ˈmo̞ɹkɪn]
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːkɪn/
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) IPA^(key): /mɔːɹkɪn/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /mɔːkɪn/

名詞

morkin (複数形 morkins)

1. (obsolete) An animal that has died of disease or by mischance.
   • c. 1600, Joseph Hall, Satires

     Could hee^[sic] not sacrifice / Some sorry morkin that unbidden dies, / Or meagre heifer, or some rotten ewe, […]

アナグラム

• romkin