different between werre vs werke

English

Noun

werre (countable and uncountable, plural werres)

1. Obsolete form of war.

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?r?/

Verb

werre

1. They will

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English werre, wyrre, borrowed from Old Northern French werre, from Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).

Alternative forms

• weorre, worre, were, ware, wær, weer, weyr, werr, wer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?r(?)/, /?w??r(?)/
• (Late ME) IPA^(key): /war/

Noun

werre (plural werres or (rare) werren)

1. War in general; the practice of fighting between two opposing forces:
   1. A military conflict or war; a conflict between two opposing forces.
   2. A battle; an instance of conflict between two opposing forces or people.
   3. (rare) An uprising or revolution; an attempt to overthrow authorities.
2. A religious or moral dispute or conflict; a fight with a higher power.
3. Quarreling, disputation, struggling; lack of harmony.
4. A joust, tourney or tilting; an equestrian conflict for sport.
5. (rare) A localised instance of invasion, harassment or intrusion.
6. (rare) The struggling caused by one's quarry while hunting.
7. (rare) A combative or quarrelsome attitude.

Related terms

• werren
• werrely
• werryng
• werreyen
• werreour
• werrour

Descendants

• English: war
• Scots: wer, weir, war

References

• “wer(re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-22.

Etymology 2

Verb

werre

1. Alternative form of werren

English

Noun

werke (plural werkes)

1. Obsolete form of work.

Anagrams

• Kwere, krewe

Afrikaans

Noun

werke

1. plural of werk

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

werke

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of werken

Anagrams

• weker

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“track, hunt, follow”), related to Latin urg?re (“to be urgent”), Hittite [script needed] (?rki-, “track”), Sanskrit ?????? (vrájati, “to go, walk, move”).

Noun

werke ?

1. hunt, hunting
2. chase