werre
See also: Werre
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werre
- They will
- Sie werre antworte.
- They'll respond.
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Etymology 1 edit
From Old English werre, wyrre, borrowed from Old Northern French werre, from Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).
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werre (plural werres or (rare) werren)
- 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, […]
- A battle; an encounter between armies.
- Non-military conflict or strife:
- (hunting, rare) The struggles of one's quarry.
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- “wer(re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-22.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
werre
- Alternative form of werren
Old English edit
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Etymology edit
From Old Northern French werre, from Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”),.
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werre f
- (Late Old English) war (large-scale military conflict)
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Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin werra, from Frankish *werru
Noun edit
werre oblique singular, f (oblique plural werres, nominative singular werre, nominative plural werres)
- (Old Northern French) Alternative form of guerre