werre

See also: Werre

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛrə/

Verb

werre

1. They will

   Sie werre antworte.

   They'll respond.

Further reading

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “werre”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Late Old English werre / wyrre (“armed conflict”), from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French guerre / werre, from Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”).

Alternative forms

• guer, guerre, gwerre, ver, verr, verre, waar, wær, war, ware, warr, warre, weer, weire, weore, weorre, wer, were, werr, weyr, where, wherre, wirre, worre
• berre (transmission error)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛr(ə)/, /ˈwɛːr(ə)/
• (Late Middle English) IPA^(key): /war/

Noun

werre (plural werres or (rare) werren)

1. A war; a large-scale military conflict.
   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum viij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 87, recto; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 173, lines 11–15:

     Thenne the batails approuched and ſhoue and ſhowted on bothe ſydes / many men ouerthrowen / hurte / & ſlayn and grete valyaunces / proweſſes and appertyces of werre were that day ſhewed […]

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     a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, line 1447:

     And bar him so, in pees and eke in werre […]

     And he acted so that, in peace and in war as well, […]

2. A battle; an encounter between armies.
3. Non-military conflict or strife:
   1. A joust or tourney; mock equestrian conflict.
   2. (religion) A moral conflict or struggle.
   3. (uncommon) Minor armed unrest or attacks.
4. (hunting, rare) The struggles of one's quarry.

Related terms

• werrely
• werren
• werreour
• werreyen
• werrour
• werrynge

Descendants

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

References

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse verri, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Doublet of worse.

Alternative forms

• war, ware, warr, warre, wer, were, werr, werrar, wor, worre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛr(ə)/, /ˈwɔr(ə)/
• (later) IPA^(key): /ˈwar/

Adjective

werre (chiefly Northern)

1. comparative degree of yvel; worse
2. comparative degree of ille; worse

Descendants

• English: war, waur, wor (dialectal)
• Middle Scots: wer
  • Scots: waur

References

• “wer, adj. (comparative).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Adverb

werre (chiefly Northern)

1. comparative degree of yvel (adverb); worse
2. comparative degree of ille (adverb); worse

Descendants

• English: war, waur, wor (dialectal)
• Middle Scots: wer
  • Scots: waur

References

• “wer”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

werre (uncountable) (chiefly Northern)

1. Something or someone which is more yvel or ille (i.e. worse).

Descendants

• English: war, waur, wor (dialectal)
• Middle Scots: wer
  • Scots: waur

References

• “wer”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Verb

werre

1. alternative form of werren

Old English

Alternative forms

• wyrre

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French guerre / werre, from Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”).

Noun

werre f

1. (Late Old English) war (large-scale military conflict)

Descendants

• Middle English: werre, guer, guerre, gwerre, ver, verr, verre, waar, wær, war, ware, warr, warre, weer, weire, weore, weorre, wer, were, werr, weyr, where, wherre, wirre, worre, berre (transmission error)
  • English: war
  • Scots: wer, weir, war

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru

Noun

werre oblique singular, f (oblique plural werres, nominative singular werre, nominative plural werres)

1. (Old Northern French) alternative form of guerre