værre
Danish
/vɛrə/
adjective
Definitions
- worse
- bad, difficult, disadvantageous, serious, troublesome, unlucky, unpleasant
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse verri (worse) derived from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô (worse).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wirsizô
Gloss
worse
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- worse English
- worsely English
- worsen English
- worseness English
- worser English
- verre Norwegian Bokmål
- *wirsizô Proto-Germanic
- förvärra Swedish
- värre Swedish
- wyrsa Old English
- worse Middle English
- verri Old Norse
- adverb Danish
- des Danish
- desværre Danish
- 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍃𐌹𐌶𐌰 Gothic
- *wirs Old Dutch
- wirsiro Old Saxon
- wirso Old Saxon
- thi ver Old Danish