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wor

See also: Appendix:Variations of "wor"

English

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Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /wɔː/
  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː

Etymology 1

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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.

Determiner

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wor

  1. (Geordie) Our.
    If ye gannin oot the neet ye betta tell wor Jimmy.
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  • Used primarily with family members or close friends of a family.
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Etymology 2

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From an altered pronunciation of was.

Verb

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wor

  1. (dialect, Northern England, East Midlands, West Country) Was; were.
    • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin Lawrence Edition, Penguin, published 1994, →ISBN, page 213:
      “I’ll bet ’er wor a toe-rag,” said Morel, following up his joke. ¶ “Don’t you be so cheeky about a queen,” said Annie.

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Abinomn

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Noun

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wor

  1. stone

Chinese

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Particle

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wor

  1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 喎 / 㖞 (particle)

Chuukese

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Verb

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wor

  1. to exist

Javanese

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Romanization

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wor

  1. Romanization of ꦮꦺꦴꦂ

Lolopo

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Etymology

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From Proto-Loloish *wa¹ (Bradley), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Nuosu ꃰ (vo).

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Noun

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wor 

  1. (Yao'an) snow

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  • Used in compounds, the normal word for "snow" is wor lei a.

Low German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German wār, wōr, wūr, from Old Saxon hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwēr, *hwar.

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Adverb

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wor

  1. (interrogative) where (at what place)
  2. (relative) where (at or in which place or situation)
  3. (interrogative, with a preposition) what, which thing
  4. (relative, with a preposition) what, that which
  5. (relative) when, that (on which; at which time)

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old English wār, from Proto-West Germanic *wair.

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Noun

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wor (uncountable)

  1. The seashore, beach; sand (on a seashore).
  2. seaweed (in sewor)

Descendants

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  • English: ware
  • Fingallian: blob-wore
  • Scots: ware
  • Yola: wore

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Old Javanese

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Adjective

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wor

  1. confused (of a battle),
  2. engaged in battle,

Noun

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wor

  1. fighting hand-to-hand

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • "wor" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
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