woe

Signification

Noun

1. Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
2. Calamity, trouble.
3. A curse; a malediction.

Adj

Woeful; sorrowful

Intj

An exclamation of grief.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/wəʊ/

Étymologie

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).