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woe
English
Etymology
From Middle English wo, wei, wa, from Old English w?, w?, from Proto-Germanic *wai (interjection), whence also Dutch wee, German Weh, weh, Danish ve, Yiddish ????? (vey). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (interjection). Compare Latin vae, Albanian vaj, French ouais, Ancient Greek ???? (ouaí), Persian ???? (vây) (Turkish vay, a Persian borrowing), and Armenian ??? (vay).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??/
- (General American) enPR: w?, IPA(key): /wo?/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophone: whoa (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun
woe (countable and uncountable, plural woes)
- Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
- Synonyms: grief, sorrow, misery
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard
- Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose / That well-known name awakens all my woes.
- October 14 2017, Sandeep Moudgal, The Times of India, Rains devastate families, political parties make beeline to apply balm on open wounds
- The Friday night rains which wrecked families in Kurabarahalli saw all the three major political parties making a beeline to express their condolences, listen to their woes and provide compensation in the hope of garnering their goodwill ahead of the 2018 assembly elections.
- Calamity, trouble.
- A curse; a malediction.
- Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
woe (comparative more woe, superlative most woe)
- (obsolete) Woeful; sorrowful
- 1303, Robert of Brunne, Handlyng synne
- hys clerk was wo to do þat dede
- Wo was the knight and sorroufully he syketh.
- 1303, Robert of Brunne, Handlyng synne
Interjection
woe
- (archaic) An exclamation of grief.
Translations
Anagrams
- owe
Limburgish
Adverb
woe
- where
Alternative forms
- boe (Maastrichtian)
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *wuo, from Proto-Germanic *hw?.
Adverb
woe
- (eastern) Alternative form of hoe
Middle English
Pronoun
woe
- Alternative form of we (“we”)
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wor
English
Etymology
Likely ultimately a borrowing into Northumbrian Old English from Old Norse várr (“our”) (from the same Proto-Germanic root *unseraz that produced Standard English our). Compare Scots wir.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /w??/
Determiner
wor
- (Northern England, dialect) our.
- If ye gannin out the neet ye betta tell wor Jimmy.
Usage notes
- Used primarily with family members or close friends of a family.
Derived terms
- wor kid (Geordie)
- wor lass (Geordie)
Anagrams
- Row, row
Abinomn
Noun
wor
- stone
Chinese
Chuukese
Verb
wor
- to exist
Lolopo
Etymology
From Proto-Loloish *wa¹ (Bradley), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Sichuan Yi ? (vo).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [wo²¹]
Noun
wor
- (Yao'an) snow
Usage notes
- Used in compounds, the normal word for "snow" is wor lei a.
Low German
Alternative forms
- waar
- wo
Etymology
From Middle Low German w?r, w?r, w?r, from Old Saxon hw?r, from Proto-Germanic *hw?r, *hwar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v??r/
Adverb
- (interrogative) where (at what place)
- (relative) where (at or in which place or situation)
- (interrogative, with a preposition) what, which thing
- (relative, with a preposition) what, that which
- (relative) when, that (on which; at which time)
Synonyms
- woneem, 'neem
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