mirken

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.

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪn

mirken (third-person singular simple present mirkens, present participle mirkening, simple past and past participle mirkened)

1. (intransitive, Scotland, rare) To grow dark.
   • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mirken.

• mirkening

• merkin