warg
See also: Warg
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Old Norse vargr (“wolf”), reintroduced by J. R. R. Tolkien; compare also Old English wearg.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɑːɡ/, /ˈwɔːɡ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwoɹɡ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːɡ, -ɔːɡ
Noun
editwarg (plural wargs)
- (fantasy, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf. [from 20th c.]
- 1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August 1967 printing), →OCLC, page 105:
- But even the wild Wargs (for so the evil wolves over the Edge of the Wild were named) cannot climb trees. […] Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together, and their dreadful clamour almost made the hobbit fall out of his pine-tree.
- 1993, jbatka, “Multiple colors for PC compatible”, in rec.hack (Usenet):
- My question is do all of the executable versions for PC compatibles have the color option enabled? If so, what am I missing to not get say yellow for a hill orc, grey for a goblin, white for my pet, red for a wolf, brown for a warg, etc?
- 1999, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 462:
- He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs.
- 2007, Stephen O. Glosecki, Myth in Northwest Europe:
- The monsters are identified not as trolls, a word apparently not available in English at the time, but (among other things) as wargs, whatever that means; Grendel is called a heoro-wearh at line 1267 and his mother a grund-wyrgen at line 1518.
See also
editAnagrams
editElfdalian
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse vargr, from Proto-Germanic *wargaz, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ-.
Noun
editwarg m
Declension
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Polish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editwarg f
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