wark
wark · warks
Pain; achePain; ache.
UK/wɔːk/US/wɔɹk/
Meaning
3 senses(Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)Pain; ache.
(Scotland, obsolete)Work.
(Scotland, obsolete)A building.
Origin
From Middle English werk, warch, from Old English wærc, wræc (“pain, suffering, anguish”),From Middle English werk, warch, from Old English wærc, wræc (“pain, suffering, anguish”), from Proto-Germanic *warkiz (“pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to make, work, act”). Cognate with Swedish värk (“ache, pain”), Icelandic verkur (“pain”). Related to work.
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