werre – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of werre

Noun: werre
Sg.werre
Pl.werres

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • And bar him so, in pees and eke in werre […] (And he acted so that, in peace and in war as well, […]) [a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, line 1447:]

Nouns inflected like werre

schepherde, drope, uncle, werre, ape, synne, sorwe, fethere, myle, sege, storie,

Etymology

From Late Old English werre /wyrre (“armed conflict”), 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”). See: Old English Nouns 'werre//wyrre'.

Verbs referencing "werre"

English Nouns war.

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