sorg
Old English
noun
Definitions
- worry, anxiety
- sorrow, grief
Etymology
Inherited from *sorgu inherited from Proto-Germanic *surgō (worry, anxiety).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*surgō
Gloss
worry, anxiety
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
恐, 虞, 怖, 畏
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sorrow English
- surku Finnish
- *surgh- Proto-Indo-European
- *swergʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- sorg Norwegian Bokmål
- *surgō Proto-Germanic
- *uzsurgaz Proto-Germanic
- sorg Swedish
- sorg Norwegian Nynorsk
- orsorg Old English
- orsorgleas Old English
- orsorglice Old English
- orsorgnes Old English
- orsorgness Old English
- sorow Middle English
- sorg Old Norse
- sorg Danish
- sorg Icelandic
- sorga Old High German
- sorg Faroese
- sorge Middle High German
- Suerg Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐌰 Gothic
- *sorgu gmw-pro
- *sworga Old Dutch
- sorga Old Saxon
- soarch Western Frisian
- sorge Old Frisian