niþweorc

Old English

Etymology

From nīþ (“strife, enmity, attack, war: evil, hatred, spite”) +‎ weorc (“work”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːθˌwe͜ork/, [ˈniːðˌwe͜orˠk]

Noun

nīþweorc n

1. (poetic) battle, conflict

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “níþ-weorc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.