verk

Swedish

/værk/

noun
Definitions
  • a work; something which has been accomplished
  • a case, an event (under study or at hand)
  • an agency running directly under the government
  • the electric or water services or some other services of a municipality, e.g. vattenverk, elverk, renhållningsverk (the latter: cleaning services)
  • a mill; a machine or a facility for a certain kind of production or activity
  • a unit formed by several smaller components

Etymology

Derived from Old Norse verk derived from Proto-Germanic *werką (work) derived from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom (work).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*wérǵom

Gloss

work

Concept
Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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