weorc

Etymology
From, from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Non-Germanic cognates include 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) work, in various senses, including:
 * 2) labor
 * 3) * c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints
 * "ang"

- Þā ēode sē prēost eft tō his weorce.


 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
 * "ang"

- Gyf þonne ǣfre gebyreð þæt þū þē ful hālne and ful trumne ongytst, and hæafst æalle þīne frēond myd þē, ǣġðer ge on mōde ge on līchaman, and on ðām ilcan worce and on ðām ylcan willum ðe ðē best lyst dōn, hweðer þū ðonne wille bēon āwiht blīðe?


 * 1) a creation, such as a building or a work of art
 * 2) act, deed

Usage notes

 * Occasionally appears to carry the sense "pain," but these instances are probably the result of scribal confusion by West Saxons unfamiliar with the Anglian word.