Does Worry Belong to the Dead?

From Dürer to Bacon

Paul Delvaux, La ville inquiète, études, Private Belgian Collection

I am recently working through some old notes, and today I paused at one. It is a question:

From an etymological point of view, does the word “martwić się” (to worry) have any connection with the word “martwy” (dead)?

I love questions; they open a whole landscape of understanding. Linguisti…