werra

Latin

Alternative forms

• wera, guerra

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *werra, from Proto-Germanic *werrō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯er.ra/, [ˈu̯ɛrːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈver.ra/, [ˈvɛrːä]

Noun

werra f (genitive werrae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) war

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	werra	werrae
Genitive	werrae	werrārum
Dative	werrae	werrīs
Accusative	werram	werrās
Ablative	werrā	werrīs
Vocative	werra	werrae

Descendants

• Old French: guerre, guere, gere, gerre, were, wiere, werre
  • Bourguignon: guârre, gârre, gârre
  • Middle French: guerre (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: gùerre, dgèrre; djère, guère; gyer
  • Picard: guère, dgère; djérre
  • Walloon: guere, guêre, guére, guère
  • → Old English: werre, wyrre
    • Middle English: werre, ware, wær, weer, weorre, wer, were, werr, weyr, worre
      • English: war
      • Scots: wer, weir, war
• Gallo-Italian:
  • Piedmontese: guèra
  • Venetian: guera
• Iberian:
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: guerra
    • Leonese: gerra
      • → Basque: gerra
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: guerra, gerra
    • Galician: guerra
    • Portuguese: guerra
  • Old Spanish:
    • Ladino: gerra
    • Spanish: guerra
    • → Moroccan Arabic: قِرَّة (gīrra)
• East Iberian:
  • Old Occitan: guerra
    • Occitan: guèrra
    • Catalan: guerra
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: guèrra
  • Istriot: guiera
  • Italian: guerra
  • Neapolitan: uerra
  • Sicilian: guerra, verra, uerra
    • → Maltese: gwerra
• Rhaetian:
  • Friulian: vuere
  • Ladin: viera
  • Romansch: uiara, veara
• Southern:
  • Sardinian: gherra

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Nyunga

Adjective

werra

1. no good
   • Papers of Daisy Bates, National Library of Australia, MS 365, Section XII, Language: Grammar And Vocabularies, Part 2. B. 3. (a), Southwestern District, Jakbum & Wabbinyet of Albany:

     alle werra (that is no good)

References

• Template:RQ:Grey1839
• Template:RQ:Bates1914

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *werrō.

Noun

werra f

1. trouble

Descendants

• Middle High German: wërre

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *werrō.

Noun

werra f

1. trouble

Descendants

• Middle Low German: werre