different between warg vs wars

English

Etymology

Noun: Reintroduced by J. R. R. Tolkien, from Old Norse vargr (“wolf”); compare also Old English wearg.Verb: Coined by George RR Martin for "A Song of Ice and Fire", from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w???/

Noun

warg (plural wargs)

1. (fantasy fiction, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf. [from 20th c.]
   • 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit:

     Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together [...].

   • 1993, "jbatka", Multiple colors for PC compatible (on newsgroup rec.hack)

     My question is do all of the executable versions for PC compatibles have the color option enabled? If so, what am I missing to not get say yellow for a hill orc, grey for a goblin, white for my pet, red for a wolf, brown for a warg, etc?

   • 1999, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 462:

     He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs.

   • 2007, Stephen O Glosecki, Myth in Northwest Europe:

     The monsters are identified not as trolls, a word apparently not available in English at the time, but (among other things) as wargs, whatever that means; Grendel is called a heoro-wearh at line 1267 and his mother a grund-wyrgen at line 1518.

Verb

warg (third-person singular simple present wargs, present participle warging, simple past and past participle warged)

1. (fantasy fiction) To enter the body of an animal.

See also

• dire wolf

Anagrams

• GAWR, Garw

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse vargr, from Proto-Germanic *wargaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wer??-.

Noun

warg m

1. wolf

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vark/

Noun

warg f

1. genitive plural of warga

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• gvarj, hw?ri, wærg, wåri, vari, vare

Etymology

From Old Norse vargr, fron Proto-Germanic *wargaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /war?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

warg m

1. wolf
2. wheelbarrow

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /w??z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??z/
• Rhymes: -??(?)z

Noun

wars

1. plural of war

   He's tough. He's been through all the wars.

Verb

wars

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of war

Anagrams

• RWAs, SWAR, WRAs, raws

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

wars (not comparable)

1. (nearly always predicative, with van) disliking, having an aversion

German

Alternative forms

• war's

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va???s/
• Hyphenation: wars

Contraction

wars

1. Contraction of war es.