# warg
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Norse vargr (“wolf”), reintroduced by J. R. R. Tolkien; compare also Old English wearg. The verb senses emerged from the use of warg in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels as a noun referring to a person with a magical skin-changing ability.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwɑːɡ/, /ˈwɔːɡ/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈwoɹɡ/
* Rhymes: -ɑːɡ, -ɔːɡ

### Noun

warg (plural wargs)
* (fantasy, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf. [from 20th c.]
** 1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August 1967 printing), →OCLC, page 105:But even the wild Wargs (for so the evil wolves over the Edge of the Wild were named) cannot climb trees. […] Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together, and their dreadful clamour almost made the hobbit fall out of his pine-tree.
** 1993, jbatka, “Multiple colors for PC compatible”, in rec.hack (Usenet):My question is do all of the executable versions for PC compatibles have the color option enabled? If so, what am I missing to not get say yellow for a hill orc, grey for a goblin, white for my pet, red for a wolf, brown for a warg, etc?
** 1999, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 462:He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs.
** 2007, Stephen O. Glosecki, Myth in Northwest Europe:The monsters are identified not as trolls, a word apparently not available in English at the time, but (among other things) as wargs, whatever that means; Grendel is called a heoro-wearh at line 1267 and his mother a grund-wyrgen at line 1518.

### Verb

warg (third-person singular simple present wargs, present participle warging, simple past and past participle warged)
* (fantasy, fandom slang) To possess the mind of (and see through the eyes of) another person or animal.
** 2016, Carolyne Larrington, Winter Is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones‎, page 59:Even in far-off Braavos, Arya has wolf-dreams, and she can warg into Nymeria’s body; it’s thus that she discovers Catelyn’s body floating in the Trident and drags it out (SS, 65).
** 2017, Rowan Kaiser, 100 Things Game of Thrones Fans Should Do & Know Before They Die‎, page 72:Hodor’s origin is finally revealed as well, with Bran warging into the big man’s body.
** 2017, Erik Baldwin, “How Can We Know Anything in a World of Magic and Miracles?”, in Eric J. Silverman, Robert Arp, editors, The Ultimate Game of Thrones and Philosophy: You Think or Die‎, page 189:As he was dying, Varamyr Sixskins of the Free Folk warged into his wolf One Eye (A Dance with Dragons).
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:warg.
* (Crusader Kings fandom slang) To switch to another player character during a game.
** 2016 January 22, [deleted account], Reddit‎:I died and warged into my son, and waited around for a succession war in England.
** 2016 April 9, murphylawson, Reddit‎:If you let yourself warg into him when you die you get his money anyway
** 2018 June 25, Uberguuy, Reddit‎:The quickest way to unmarry an unlanded character is to land them (via console of otherwise), warg into them, divorce, go back to your character, and take the land back.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:warg.

### See also

* dire wolf

### Anagrams

* GAWR, Garw

## Elfdalian
### Etymology

From Old Norse vargr, from Proto-Germanic *wargaz, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ-.

### Noun

warg m
* wolf

#### Declension
## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvark/
* Rhymes: -ark
* Syllabification: warg
* Homophone: wark

### Noun

warg f
* genitive plural of warga