# werre
## Hunsrik
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɛrə/

### Verb

werre
* They will
    Sie werre antworte.They'll respond.

### Further reading

* Online Hunsrik Dictionary

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English werre, wyrre, borrowed from Old Northern French werre, from Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).

#### Alternative forms

* ware, wær, weer, weorre, wer, were, werr, weyr, worre

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwɛr(ə)/, /ˈwɛːr(ə)/
* (Late Middle English) IPA: /war/

#### Noun

werre (plural werres or (rare) werren)
* A war; a large-scale military conflict.
** 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum viij”, in, book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 87, recto; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 173, lines 11–15:Thenne the batails approuched and ſhoue and ſhowted on bothe ſydes / many men ouerthrowen / hurte / & ſlayn and grete valyaunces / proweſſes and appertyces of werre were that day ſhewed […](please add an English translation of this quotation)
    a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, line 1447:And bar him so, in pees and eke in werre […]And he acted so that, in peace and in war as well, […]
* A battle; an encounter between armies.
* Non-military conflict or strife:
** A joust or tourney; mock equestrian conflict.
** (religion) A moral conflict or struggle.
** (uncommon) Minor armed unrest or attacks.
* (hunting, rare) The struggles of one's quarry.

##### Related terms

* werrely
* werren
* werreour
* werreyen
* werrour
* werrynge

##### Descendants

* English: war
* Scots: wer, weir, war

##### References

* “wer(re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-22.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse verri, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Doublet of worse.

#### Alternative forms

* war, ware, warr, warre, wer, were, werr, worre

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwɛr(ə)/, /ˈwɔr(ə)/
* (later) IPA: /ˈwar/

#### Adjective

werre (chiefly Northern)
* comparative degree of yvel; worse
* comparative degree of ille; worse

##### Descendants

* English: war, waur, wor (dialectal)
* Middle Scots: wer
** Scots: waur

##### References

* “wer”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

#### Adverb

werre (chiefly Northern)
* comparative degree of yvel (adverb); worse
* comparative degree of ille (adverb); worse

##### Descendants

* English: war, waur, wor (dialectal)
* Middle Scots: wer
** Scots: waur

##### References

* “wer”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

#### Noun

werre (uncountable) (chiefly Northern)
* Something or someone which is more yvel or ille (i.e. worse).

##### Descendants

* English: war, waur, wor (dialectal)
* Middle Scots: wer
** Scots: waur

##### References

* “wer”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

werre
* Alternative form of werren

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* wyrre

### Etymology

From Old Northern French werre, from Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”),.

### Noun

werre f
* (Late Old English) war (large-scale military conflict)

#### Descendants

* Middle English: werre, ware, wær, weer, weorre, wer, were, werr, weyr, worre
** English: war
** Scots: wer, weir, war

## Old French
### Etymology

From Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru

### Noun

werre oblique singular, f (oblique plural werres, nominative singular werre, nominative plural werres)
* (Old Northern French) Alternative form of guerre