Contionary:wort

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Niemish

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Gothic waúrt.

Noun

wórt n.f. zero-stem

  1. root (part of a plant)
  2. source, origin
    Synonyms: brònn
  3. (linguistics) root
  4. (chemistry) radical

Declension

declension of wórt (f-0h declension)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative wórt wórta wórts wórtos
genitive wórts wórtos wórta wórtsa
dative wórte wórtse wórtą wórtę

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.

Pronunciation

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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