Old English · noun
dweorg
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /dwe͜orɡ/[dwe͜orˠɣ]
- Syllables
- dwe͜orɡ (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- dwarf
Meaning
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dwarf
Wið dweorh man sċeal niman VII lȳtle oflǣtan…
Against a dwarf, one should take seven little wafers…
11th century, Against a dwarf:
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *dwerg. Cognate with Old Frisian dwerch, Old Saxon dwerg, Old Dutch *dwerg, Old High German twërc, Old Norse dvergr.
Descendants
dwarf
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