Wirrwarr

Meaning

confusion, commotion, chaos, jumble, muddle

Frequency

48k
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

kafelantis

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

striggede

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

struubel

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

wiirlede

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvɪrvar/
Etymology

In summary

15th-century shortening of Middle High German wirrewarren n, a reduplicative ablauting derivation (cf. Mischmasch) from werren (“to entangle, confuse”), from Old High German werran, from Proto-West Germanic *werran.

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