Отмор оженные

[Hugh Olmsted]

    Sorry, it's always a temptation to look for etymological conections when you see similar-looking forms.  But Slavic мьрз-, мороз- / мраз- /(mьrz-, moroz- / mraz- ) doesn't come from Greek.  It was inherited along with all the rest of the Slavic heritage from Indo-European, and has relatives in Germanic and Albanian, inter alias.
    And Engl. morose has nothing to do with it.  The latter comes straight from Lat. morosus, derived with the productive suffix -os-us from the stem mos (gen. moris) 'habit, custom', cf. moral, morale.

H. Olmsted


On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:08 PM, ja tu wrote:

> Отмороженный means wierd in English, implying the person does not want to deal or associate with something or somebody. Note: the word мороз comes from Greek. The literal English equivalent for it is morose. 
> 
> Sincerely, 
> 
> Ivan Zhavoronkov


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