regret
English
/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/
verb
Definitions
- To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
- (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
- (archaic) To miss; to feel the loss or absence of.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English regretten derived from Old French regreter (lament) derived from Frankish *grātan (weep, mourn, lament) derived from Proto-Germanic *grētaną (weep, moan, cry, lament) derived from Frankish *greutan (cry, weep) derived from Proto-Germanic *greutaną (cry, weep) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd- (be sad, weep) affix from English greet (weep).
Origin
English
greet
Gloss
weep
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- autogreet English
- begreet English
- begrutten English
- greet English
- greetable English
- greetee English
- greeter English
- greetest English
- greeteth English
- misgreet English
- regreet English
- regretful English
- regretfully English
- regretfulness English
- regretless English
- regretlessness English
- regrettable English
- regrettableness English
- regrettably English
- regretter English
- regrettest English
- regretteth English
- unregretful English
- *gʰrew- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰrewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰreh₁d- Proto-Indo-European
- gråte Norwegian Bokmål
- *grautaz Proto-Germanic
- *greutaną Proto-Germanic
- *greutą Proto-Germanic
- *grētaną Proto-Germanic
- *grētaz Proto-Germanic
- gråta Norwegian Nynorsk
- begrætan Old English
- grǣtan Old English
- greten Middle English
- regretten Middle English
- gráta Old Norse
- grátinn Old Norse
- græde Danish
- udgræde Danish
- regreter Old French
- gráta Icelandic
- gráta Faroese
- regretter Middle French
- regretter, regreter Middle French
- 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *greutan gmw-pro
- *grātan gmw-pro
- gratan Old Saxon
- griotan Old Saxon
- grata Old Swedish
- grāta, grata Old Swedish
- *greotan Frankish
- *greutan Frankish
- *grātan Frankish