different between wark vs warg

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??(?)k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

From Middle English werk, warch, from Old English wærc, wræc (“pain, suffering, anguish”), from Proto-Germanic *warkiz (“pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer?- (“to make, work, act”). Cognate with Swedish värk (“ache, pain”), Icelandic verkur (“pain”). Related to work.

Noun

wark (plural warks)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Pain; ache.

Derived terms

• bellywark
• headwark

Etymology 2

From Middle English werken, warchen, from Old English wærcan (“to be in pain”). Cognate with Swedish värka (“to ache, pain”), Icelandic verkja (“to pain”). See above.

Verb

wark (third-person singular simple present warks, present participle warking, simple past and past participle warked)

1. (intransitive) To be in pain; ache.

Etymology 3

See work.

Noun

wark (plural warks)

1. (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A building.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Anagrams

• rawk

Kashubian

Noun

wark m

1. business
2. profession

Northeast Pashayi

Noun

wark

1. water

Further reading

• Robert Leech, Vocabularies of seven languages, spoken in the countries west of the Indus; also Epitome of the Grammars of the Brahuiky, Balochky & Panjabi Languages (1843)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English work, werk, from Old English worc, weorc, ?eweorc, from Proto-Germanic *werk? (“work”), from Proto-Indo-European *wér?om.

Noun

wark (plural warks)

1. work

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