Old English · noun
werre
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Modern English
- warlarge-scale
Meaning
-
war (large-scale military conflict)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French guerre /werre, from Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werʀu (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”).
Descendants
war
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