Contionary:wort

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Skundavisk

Etymology

From Middle Skundavisk vort, from Old Skundavisk vort, from Halmisk ᚹᛟᚱᛏ (wort), ᚹᛟᚱᛏᛉ (wortŕ), metathetic variant of ᚹᚱᛟᛏᛉ (wrōtŕ), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts.

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Noun

wort m. (class 3a, genitive wort or wørt, plural wørte)

  1. root
    This is the wort aller måle.
    This is the root of all problems.

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