Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad). · Sorely.
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive. · Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation. · Dire; distressing. · Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait. · To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions.
An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin. · Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *sair, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz (adjective) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂iro-, enlargement of *seh₂y- (“to be fierce, afflict”). See also Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”), German sehr (“very”); also Hittite [script needed] (sāwar, “anger”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”).
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