different between scry vs sory

English

Alternative forms

• skry

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English scrien, scryen, a shortened form of Middle English ascrien, from Old French escrier (“to cry out”). Influenced by Middle English descrien (“to descry”).

Verb

scry (third-person singular simple present scries, present participle scrying, simple past and past participle scried)

1. To predict the future using crystal balls or other objects.

   The fortune teller claimed she could scry [into] the future.

2. (obsolete) To descry; to see.

Translations

Derived terms

• scryer

Etymology 2

From Middle English ascry, ascrie, escrie, from Anglo-Norman ascri, from Old French escri.

Noun

scry (plural scries)

1. (obsolete) A cry or shout.
2. A flock of wildfowl.

Verb

scry (third-person singular simple present scries, present participle scrying, simple past and past participle scried)

1. (obsolete) To proclaim.

Anagrams

• Cyrs

English

Etymology

Latin sory, from Ancient Greek ???? (sôru, “a kind of ore”).

Noun

sory (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, obsolete) green vitriol, or some earth impregnated with it

Anagrams

• Syro-, rosy, roys

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sori, sari, særi, sorry, soory, sary, sari?

Etymology

From Old English s?ri?, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz. Equivalent to sore +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??ri?/

Adjective

sory (plural and weak singular sorye, comparative sorier, superlative soriest)

1. sad, sorrowful
   1. painful, distressful
   2. sorry, remorseful, regretful
2. pitiful, downtrodden, dismal:
   1. cheap, low-quality
   2. luckless; cheated by fate
3. iniquitous, malicious; having bad intentions

Derived terms

• sorinesse
• soryly

Descendants

• English: sorry
  • ? Scots: sorry, sorra
• Scots: sairy

References

• “s?r?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-09.

Adverb

sory

1. (rare) harshly, intensely; with extreme force
2. (rare) sadly; while upset

References

• “s?r?, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-09.