different between werk vs wark
werk
English
Noun
werk (plural werks)
- Obsolete form of work.
Anagrams
- w**ker
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???rk/
Etymology 1
From Dutch werk, from Old Dutch *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werk?, from Proto-Indo-European *wér?om.
Noun
werk (plural werke, diminutive werkie)
- work
Derived terms
- werkboek
Etymology 2
From Dutch werken, from Middle Dutch werken, from Old Dutch wirken, wirkon (“to work, make”), from Proto-Germanic *wirkijan? (“to work, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer?-, *wre?- (“to work, act”).
Verb
werk (present werk, present participle werkende, past participle gewerk)
- work
Related terms
- werker
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??rk/
- Hyphenation: werk
- Rhymes: -?rk
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch werc, from Old Dutch *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werk?, from Proto-Indo-European *wér?om.
Noun
werk n (plural werken, diminutive werkje n)
- A task, job, chore.
- Het werk dat moest gebeuren, is voltooid. — The thing that must be done is finished.
- A profession, job, employment, line of work.
- Het werk van Hans is buschauffeur. — The profession of Hans is bus driver.
- A workplace
- Hans kwam vandaag te laat aan op het werk. — Today Hans arrived to the workplace too late.
- A product, creation; production, output, result of work.
- Het werk van Magritte zal op de veiling verkocht worden. — The work of Magritte will be sold by auction.
- (dialectal) tow, oakum
- Synonym: hede
Synonyms
- arbeid
Derived terms
- output, product(ion)
Related terms
- werken
Descendants
- Afrikaans: werk
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
werk
- first-person singular present indicative of werken
- imperative of werken
Middle English
Alternative forms
- wirk, work
Etymology
From Old English weorc. See English work for more.
Noun
werk (plural werks)
- work
- sexual intercourse
- 1422, James Yonge (translator), Secretum Secretorum:
- 1422, James Yonge (translator), Secretum Secretorum:
References
- “werk, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *werk?, whence also Old High German werc, Old Norse verk.
Noun
werk n
- work
Declension
Scots
Noun
werk (plural werkis)
- Obsolete form of wirk (“work”).
References
- “wirk” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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wark
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)
- (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)
- (intransitive) To be in pain; ache.
Etymology 3
See work.
Noun
wark (plural warks)
- (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A building.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
Anagrams
- rawk
Kashubian
Noun
wark m
- business
- profession
Northeast Pashayi
Noun
wark
- 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)
- work
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