Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗The act of saying sorry; an apology.
To feel sorry (for someone).
Of a person, regretful or apologetic for one's actions. · Of a person, grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone. · Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable. · Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. By surface analysis, sor(e) + -y. Unrelated to sorrow despite the similarity in form and meaning.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionsoryenm
- Inherited-form mentionsāriġang · feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter
- Inherited-form mention*sairaggmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*sairagazgem-pro · sad
- Derivation mention*seh₂yroine-pro · hard, rough, painful
- Cognate mentionsairiesco
- Cognate mentionseerichstq · sore, inflamed
- Cognate mentionsearichfy
- Cognate mentionserignds
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