woe
Signification (English)
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- Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
- Calamity, trouble.
- A curse; a malediction.
Concepts
Synonyms
O dear
deep sorrow
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/wəʊ/
Étymologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English wo, wei, wa, from Old English wā, wǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *wai, from Proto-Germanic *wai (interjection), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (interjection). See also Dutch wee, German Weh, weh, Danish ve, Yiddish וויי (vey); also Latin vae, Albanian vaj, French ouais, Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí), Persian وای (vây) (Turkish vay, a Persian borrowing), and Armenian վայ (vay).
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