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Translingual
editSymbol
editwar
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre (“armed conflict”), from Old Northern French werre (compare modern French guerre), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Gradually displaced native Old English beadu, hild, ġewinn, orleġe, wīġ, and many others as the general term for "war" during the Middle English period.
Related to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) and German verwirren (“to confuse”), but not to Wehr (“defense”). Also related to Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), West Frisian war (“confusion”), Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”), Old Norse verri (“worse, orig. confounded, mixed up”), Italian guerra (“war”). There may be a connection with worse and wurst.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɔː/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /wɔɹ/
Audio (General American): (file)
- Homophones: wore, wor (some dialects)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- (obsolete or Philippines) IPA(key): /wɑɹ/
Noun
editwar (countable and uncountable, plural wars)
- (uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 1:10:
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 13:7:
- And when yee shall heare of warres, and rumors of warres, be yee not troubled: For such things must needs be, but the end shall not be yet.
- 1854, Prince George, letter to his wife from Crimea:
- War is indeed a fearful thing and the more I see it the more dreadful it appears.
- 1864 Sept. 12, William Tecumseh Sherman, letter to the mayor of Atlanta & al.:
- You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out... You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war.
- 1879 June 19, William Tecumseh Sherman, speech to the Michigan Military Academy:
- I've been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It's entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don't know the horrible aspects of war. I've been through two wars and I know. I've seen cities and homes in ashes. I've seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is hell!
- 1907, Edward Porter Alexander, Military Memoirs of a Confederate, page 302:
- Here Lee and Longstreet stood during most of the fighting [at Fredericksburg], and it is told that, on one of the Federal repulses from Marye's Hill, Lee put his hand upon Longstreet's arm and said, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it."
- 1922, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, chapter 17, in My Life and Work, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC:
- Nobody can deny that war is a profitable business for those who like that kind of money. War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood.
- 1935, Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket, page 1 & 7:
- War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives... Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket—and are safely pocketed.
- 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. III:
- War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface. Above all, war brings it home to the individual that he is not altogether an individual.
- 1944 June 27, Herbert Hoover, speech to the Republican National Convention:
- Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
- 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 1, page 7:
- From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
- 1969, “War”, in Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong (lyrics), War & Peace, performed by Edwin Starr:
- War, huh, Good God, y'all!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing...
- 2013 July 20, "Old Soldiers?", The Economist, Vol. 408, No. 8845:
- Edward Wilson, the inventor of the field of sociobiology, once wrote that "war is embedded in our very nature". This is a belief commonly held not just by sociobiologists but also by anthropologists and other students of human behaviour. They base it not only on the propensity of modern man to go to war with his neighbours (and, indeed, with people halfway around the world, given the chance) but also on observations of the way those who still live a pre-agricultural "hunter-gatherer" life behave... Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine... One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries... Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
- (countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
- 1865, Herman Melville, The Surrender at Appomattox:
- 1999 Nov. 8, Bill Clinton, speech at Georgetown University:
- A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war.
- (countable, sometimes proscribed) Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
- 2001 Sept. 20, George W. Bush, speech before Congress, White House Archives:
- Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.
- 2021 Sept. 8, Seth G. Jones, quoted in Chris Moody, "Twenty Years after 9/11, Did US Win Its ‘War on Terror’?" Al-Jazeera:
- "...These wars are not going away. This is at least a generational struggle."
- the Great Emu War... the Global War on Terrorism...
- 2001 Sept. 20, George W. Bush, speech before Congress, White House Archives:
- (countable, by extension) Any protracted conflict, particularly
- (chiefly US) Campaigns against various social problems.
- 1906, William James, The Moral Equivalent of War:
- The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party... Ask all our millions, north and south, whether they would vote now (were such a thing possible) to have our war for the Union expunged from history... and probably hardly a handful of eccentrics would say yes. Those ancestors, those efforts, those memories and legends, ar the most ideal part of what we now own together, a sacred spiritual possession worth more than all the blood poured out. Yet ask those same people whether they would be willing, in cold blood, to start another civil war now to gain another similar possession, and not one man or woman would vote for the proposition.
- (business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
- (crime) A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
- (Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
- (chiefly US) Campaigns against various social problems.
- (obsolete, uncountable) An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma. […]”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, page 245:
- The God of Love himſelf inhabits there,
With all his rage, and dread, and grief, and care,
His complement of ſtores, and total war...
- (obsolete) Armed forces.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- On thir imbattelld ranks the Waves return,
And overwhelm thir Warr
- (uncountable, card games) Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
- 2004, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven:
- We played crazy eights, war, fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.
Antonyms
editHyponyms
edit- civil war
- cola war
- cold war
- conventional war
- edit war
- flame war
- format war
- gang war
- gas war
- holy war
- hot war
- Hundred Years' War
- Korean War
- Mexican-American War
- Mexican War
- nuclear war
- nukewar
- pissing war
- price war
- propaganda war
- proxy war
- revert war
- shadow war
- Spanish-American War
- succession war
- thermonuclear war
- Thirty Years' War
- thumb war
- total war
- trade war
- tribal war
- turf war
- undeclared war
- Vietnam War
- war of all against all
- war of ideas
- war of religion
- war of succession
- War of the Roses
- War on Christmas
- War on Drugs
- War on Poverty
- war on terror
- War on Women
- Wars of the Three Kingdoms
- water war
- wheel war
- world war
- World War One
- World War Three
- World War Two
Derived terms
edit- 14-18 war
- abstinence of war
- act of war
- after-war
- afterwar
- air war
- airwar
- all is fair in love and war
- all's fair in love and war
- anti-war
- articles of war
- art of war
- at war
- bewarred
- catalytic war
- class war
- color war
- contraband of war
- council of war
- counterwar
- culture war
- currency war
- cyberwar
- declaration of war
- declare war
- dirty war
- dogs of war
- ecowar
- European War
- fog of war
- future war
- go to war
- gunstock war club
- hard war
- how goes the war
- hybrid war
- infowar
- interwar
- inter-war
- intestine war
- iWar
- law of war
- laws of war
- lightning war
- loudness war
- man of war
- man-of-war bird
- man-of-war, man-o-war, man-o'-war
- man o' war
- man-o'-war suit
- miniwar
- mommy war
- mummy war
- netwar
- never fight a land war in Asia
- never start a land war in Asia
- nonwar
- outwar
- Pacific War
- pea-knuckle war
- people's war
- Portuguese man-of-war
- postcode war
- post-war
- preventive war
- pre-war
- prewar
- prisoner-of-war camp
- prisoner of war, P.O.W., POW, P.W., PW
- progressive war
- pro-war
- prowar
- ship of war
- ship war
- shooting war
- sinews of war
- sloop-of-war
- spasm war
- spoils of war
- state of war
- theater of war, theatre of war
- there is no war in Ba Sing Se
- this is war
- this means war
- thumb-a-war
- tong war
- transwar
- tug-of-war
- tug of war
- uncivil war
- war-
- war artist
- war baby
- warbag
- warband
- war between the sexes
- warbird
- warblade
- warblog
- warblogger
- warblogging
- war bond
- war bonnet
- warbot
- warbow
- war bride
- war by proxy
- war cabinet
- War Cabinet
- war cake
- war cemetery
- warchalk
- war chalk
- war chest
- warchest
- war chief
- war child
- warclub
- war club
- war communism
- warcore
- war correspondent
- warcraft
- war crime
- war criminal
- war cry
- war daddy
- war dance
- war-dial
- wardialer
- war-dialing
- war dog
- wardom
- war-drive
- wardrive
- wardriving
- war-driving
- war drum
- war economy
- war effort
- war elephant
- war establishment
- warfare
- warfighter
- warfighting
- war film
- war footing
- warfreak
- warfront
- warful
- war game
- wargame
- wargamer
- wargaming
- war garden
- wargasm
- war golok
- war grave
- war groom
- war hammer
- war hawk
- warhead
- war-hero
- war hero
- war horn
- war-horn
- warhorse
- war hound
- warhungry
- warish
- war is hell
- warism
- warlady
- war leader
- warless
- warlight
- warlike
- warling
- warload
- warlord
- warly
- war machine
- warmaker
- warman
- warmaster
- warmate
- war memorial
- warmonger
- warmouth
- war movie
- warnik
- war of aggression
- war of attrition
- war of conquest
- war of independence
- war of nerves
- war of the currents
- war of words
- war orphan
- war paint
- war-paint
- warpaint
- war party
- warpath
- warplane
- war porn
- warpower
- war profiteer
- warproof
- war propaganda
- war-ravaged
- warray
- war reparations
- war-ridden
- warring
- warrior
- warrish
- war-room
- war room
- Warshington
- warship
- war siu gai
- warsome
- warspeak
- war story
- war su gai
- war sui gai
- warsuit
- war-time
- war time
- wartime
- war to end all war
- war to end all wars
- war torn
- war-torn
- war to the knife
- war tourism
- war tuba
- war veteran
- war wagon
- warwagon
- warwalking
- warwards
- war-weariness
- war-weary
- war weary
- war whoop
- war widow
- warwood
- war-work
- war work
- war worker
- war-worker
- warworn
- war zone
- weasel war dance
- world-war
Translations
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See also
editVerb
editwar (third-person singular simple present wars, present participle warring, simple past and past participle warred)
- (intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
- 1595, Samuel Daniel, The First Four Books of the Civil Wars:
- ...to war the Scot, and borders to defend...
- 1611, King James Bible, Book of Numbers, 31:7:
- And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew all the males
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 77:
- 1882, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 14, in Cashel Byron's Profession:
- This vein of reflection, warring with his inner knowledge that he had been driven by fear and hatred . . ., produced an exhausting whirl in his thoughts.
- 1973, Stevie Wonder (lyrics and music), “Higher Ground”, in Innervisions:
- People keep on learning
Soldiers keep on warring
World keep on turning
'Cause it won't be too long
- 1979 April 28, Gerry McNamara, “Life for Art's Sake”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
- In a paradox, language wars against the world.
- (transitive) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 1:18, column 2:
- […], that thou by them mighteſt warre a good warfare, […].
Synonyms
editTranslations
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Anagrams
editAmbonese Malay
editEtymology
editUnknown. Perhaps from Dutch vermogen or Portuguese saber.
Verb
editwar
- to be able to, can
- Beta war kami iskola dia pung ana sampe masu kaskola tinggi.
- I am able to send their children to our high school.
References
edit- D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia[1], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa
Breton
editEtymology
editFrom Old Breton guar, from Proto-Celtic *uɸer. Cognate to Welsh ar (“on”), Irish ar (“on, upon”), and Scottish Gaelic air (“on, upon”).
Preposition
editwar
- on, over
- War ar sizhun. ― During the week.
- War an doal emañ ar bara. ― The bread is on the table. (right now)
- War an doal e vez ar bara. ― The bread is on the table. (usually)
Inflection
editDerived terms
editChuukese
editVerb
editwar
- to arrive
Cornish
editPreposition
editwar
Inflection
editSingular | Plural | |
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First person | warnav, warnam, warna vy | warnan, wara nei |
Second person | warnas, warna chy | warnowgh, wara hwei |
Third person | warnodho, war ev(m); warnedhi, war hei(f) | warnedha, warnedhans, war anjei |
Dusner
editNoun
editwar
- (fresh) water
References
edit- D. C. Kamholz, Austronesians in Papua (2014, Berkeley)
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Dutch werre, warre (“confusion, disarray, conflict”), from Old Dutch *werra, from Proto-West Germanic *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwar f (plural warren, diminutive warretje n)
- confusion, disarray
- 2016 March 15, Josien Wolthuizen, Hanneloes Pen, “Man doodgestoken in fietsenwinkel Nieuw-West”, in Het Parool:
- Volgens een bovenbuurvrouw kwamen hulpdiensten rond 12 uur 's middags naar de fietsenwinkel. "Ik had geen idee wat er aan de hand was. Maar de zoon van de eigenaar kwam eraan en was helemaal in de war. (...)"
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- tangle, mess
- 2016 January 29, “Wist je dat papierklemmen je leven veel gemakkelijker kunnen maken?”, in Het Laatste Nieuws:
- Van statief voor je smartphone tot instrument om oortjes uit de war te houden, tot zelfs een portefeuille. De mogelijkheden met papierklemmen zijn eindeloos, maar de Japanner Venlee geeft je alvast 15 lifehacks.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- an elevated area on the floor of a body of water, a kind of contraption for luring and catching fish, where nets and fykes could be installed
- 1949, G. Karsten, “Eenvorme, Informe, Yefforme”, in De Speelwagen, 10, no. 4: 307:
- Welnu, deze stoepen of warren bevonden zich aan de walkant en niet midden in het water.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1667, Handtvesten, privilegien, willekeuren ende ordonnantien der Stadt Enchuysen, page 345:
- De Schutters van de respective Steden, werden geauctoriseert, alle de Fuycken, buyten de benoemde Warren in de Wateringh staende, te mogen visiteren, of de selve keur mogen houden ofte niet, (...)
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Quotations
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editDutch Low Saxon
editAlternative forms
edit- (Low Prussian) wahr
Etymology
editFrom Low German wahr, from Middle Low German wâr, from Old Saxon wār. Cognate to German wahr.
Adjective
editwar
Elfdalian
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar. Cognate with Swedish var.
Adverb
editwar
- where, in what place
German
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editVerb
editwar
- first-person singular preterite of sein
- 1788, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont[2], archived from the original on 26 September 2009, (English translation):
- Ich hätte ihn heiraten können, und glaube, ich war nie in ihn verliebt.
- I could have married him; yet I believe I was never really in love with him.
- third-person singular preterite of sein
Luxembourgish
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editVerb
editwar
Middle English
editAdjective
editwar
- Alternative form of werre (“worse”)
Adverb
editwar
- Alternative form of werre (“worse”)
Noun
editwar
- Alternative form of werre (“worse”)
Mokilese
editNoun
editwar
Inflection
editsingular possessor | first person | woaroai | |
---|---|---|---|
second person | woaroamw | ||
third person | warah | ||
dual possessors | first person inclusive | warasa | |
first person exclusive | warama | ||
second person | waramwa | ||
third person | warara | ||
plural possessors | first person inclusive | warasai | |
first person exclusive | waramai | ||
second person | waramwai | ||
third person | wararai | ||
remote plural possessors | first person inclusive | warahs | |
first person exclusive | weremi | ||
second person | weremwi | ||
third person | warahr | ||
construct form | weren |
Related terms
edit- waranki (“to own (a vehicle)”)
Mpur
editNoun
editwar
References
edit- A Sketch of Mpur, in Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head (2002)
Northern Kurdish
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editwar m
Etymology 2
editNoun
editwar m
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *wair, related to *wīraz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwār n
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wár”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[3], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old Gutnish
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Norse ᚹᚨᛊ (was), from Proto-Germanic *was, first/third-person singular indicative past of *wesaną.
Verb
editwar
Old High German
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *wār, from Proto-Germanic *wēraz, whence also Old English wǣr, Old Norse værr.
Adjective
editwār
Derived terms
editDescendants
editOld Polish
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *vȃrъ (“boiling; boiling liquid”). By surface analysis, deverbal from wrzeć/warzyć. First attested in 1499.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwar m animacy unattested
- boiling water
- 1874 [1499], Monumenta Medii Aevi Historica res gestas Poloniae illustrantia. Pomniki Dziejowe Wieków Średnich do objaśnienia rzeczy polskich służące[4], volume XVIII, page 622:
- Tako ony rzeczy parzyl od syebye, yako pssy z kuchnyey parzą varem
- [Tako ony rzeczy parzył od siebie, jako psy z kuchniej parzą warem]
- batch of a beer
- 1856-1870 [1499], Antoni Zygmunt Helcel, editor, Starodawne Prawa Polskiego Pomniki[5], volume IX, number 1251:
- Post sex annos debet... Stanislao... per sexagenam soluere de censv et eciam per tenam siliqui a qualibet ceruisia al. warv
- [Post sex annos debet... Stanislao... per sexagenam soluere de censv et eciam per tenam siliqui a qualibet ceruisia al. waru]
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “war”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Old Saxon
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *wār, from Proto-Germanic *wēraz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros.
Adjective
editwār
Declension
editStrong declension | ||||||
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gender | masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
case | singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural |
nominative | wār | wāre, wāra | wār | wāra | wār | wār, wāra |
accusative | wāran, wāren | wāra, wāre | wāra | wāra | wār | wār, wāra |
genitive | wāres, wāras | wāraro, wāroro, wārero | wārara, wāraro | wāraro, wāroro, wārero | wāres, wāras | wāraro, wāroro, wārero |
dative | wārumu, wārum, wārun, wārun, wāron, wāren, wāran | wārun, wāron, wārum | wāraro, wāraru, wārara | wārun, wāron | wārumu, wārum, wārun, wārun, wāron, wāren, wāran | wārun, wāron, wārum |
Weak declension | ||||||
gender | masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
case | singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural |
nominative | wāro, wāra | wāron, wārun | wāra, wāre | wāron, wārun, wāran | wāra, wāre | wāron, wārun |
accusative | wāron, wāran | wāron, wārun | wārun, wāron, wāran | wāron, wārun, wāran | wāra, wāre | wāron, wārun |
genitive | wāren, wāran | wārono, wāreno | wārun, wāran, wāren | wārono | wāren, wāran | wārono, wāreno |
dative | wāron, wāren, wāran | wāron, wārun | wārun, wāran | wāron, wārun | wāron, wāren, wāran | wāron, wārun |
Polish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Old Polish war. By surface analysis, deverbal from warzyć.
Noun
editwar m inan
Declension
editRelated terms
editEtymology 2
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *vȃrъ (“heat”).
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editwar m inan
Declension
editEtymology 3
editNoun
editwar m inan
- (physics) var, volt-ampere reactive (unit of electrical power)
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editScots
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English were, weren, from Old English wǣre, wǣron, wǣren, from Proto-Germanic *wēz-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-.
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editwar
- first/second/third-person plural simple past indicative of be; were
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English werre, from Old Northern French, ultimately a Frankish loan.
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editwar (plural wars)
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editReferences
edit- “war”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
Somali
editNoun
editwar ?
- news
- Wax war miyaa hey-sa? ― Do you have some news?
Tocharian B
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Tocharian *wär (whence Tocharian A wär), from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (“water”) through a regular (endocentric) thematicization via *udrom.
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editwar ?
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edit- āp (“body of water, river, flood”)
Yola
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English ware, from Old English wǣre.
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editVerb
editwar
- were
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 32:
- A war cowdealeen wi ooree.
- They were scolding with one another.
- 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:
- Trippeathès an brand-eyrons war ee-brougkt to a big breal.
- [Trippets and brandirons were brought to the large fire.]
- 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:
- Baakhooses an lauckès war aul ee a zweal.
- [Ovens and locks were all in the swale.]
- 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:
- Tibbès an crockès wee drink war ee-felt.
- [Tubs and crocks were filled with drink.]
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edit- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32
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