sorrow

Signification

Noun

1. unhappiness, woe
2. (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.

Verb

1. To feel or express grief.
2. To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsɒɹ.əʊ/

Étymologie

From Middle English sorow, sorwe, sorghe, sorȝe, from Old English sorg, sorh (“care, anxiety, sorrow, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surgō (compare West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”) (compare Old Irish serg (“sickness”), Tocharian B sark (“sickness”), Lithuanian sirgti (“be sick”), Sanskrit सूर्क्षति (sū́rkṣati, “worry”). Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not historically related to sorry and sore.