Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued. · Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick. · Expressive of fatigue. · Causing weariness; tiresome.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo make or to become weary.
From Middle English wery, weri, from Old English wēriġ (“weary”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōrīg, *wōrag (“weary”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian wuurich (“weary, tired”), West Frisian wurch (“tired”), Dutch dialectal wurrig (“exhausted”), Old Saxon wōrig (“weary”), Old High German wōrag, wuarag (“drunken”), Latvian vārgs (“weak”), Lithuanian vergas (“slave”), Latvian vergs (“slave”). Compare wear.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionweryenm
- Inherited-form mentionwēriġang · weary
- Inherited-form mention*wōrīggmw-pro
- Cognate mentionwuurichstq · weary, tired
- Cognate mentionwurchfy · tired
- Cognate mentionwōrigosx · weary
- Cognate mentionwōraggoh
- Cognate mentionvārgslv · weak
- Cognate mentionvergaslt · slave
- Cognate mentionvergslv · slave
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