sorg

From Dutch zorg (noun) and zorgen (verb).

sorg (plural sorge)

1. care; worry

sorg (present sorg, present participle sorgende, past participle gesorg)

1. to care; to care for

From Middle Danish sorg, sorrig, from Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔrɡ/, [sɒˀw]

sorg c (singular definite sorgen, plural indefinite sorger)

1. sorrow, grief

• “sorg” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔɹk/

sorg f (genitive singular sorgar, plural sorgir)

1. sorrow, grief

sorg

1. imperative singular form of sorgen (‘to worry’, ‘to care’)

• sorg dich nicht! - don't worry!

From Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔrk/

  Rhymes: -ɔrk

sorg f (genitive singular sorgar, nominative plural sorgir)

1. sorrow, grief
2. mourning

• (sorrow): harmur, hryggð

• sorgarbúningur
• sorgarlag
• sorgarsaga

From Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”).

sorg f or m (definite singular sorga or sorgen, indefinite plural sorger, definite plural sorgene)

1. sorrow, grief, sadness

• landesorg
• sorgløs

• sørge

• “sorg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”). Akin to sorrow

• IPA^(key): /sɔrɡ/

sorg f (definite singular sorga, indefinite plural sorger, definite plural sorgene)

1. sorrow, grief, sadness

• landesorg

• sørgja, sørgje

• “sorg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Variant of sorh.

sorg f (nominative plural sorga or sorge)

1. sorrow

From Proto-Germanic *surgō, from Proto-Indo-European *surgh- (“worry, care, be sick”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”). Compare Old English sorh, sorg, Old Frisian sorge, Old Saxon sorga, Old High German sworga, sorga, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐌰 (saurga).

sorg f

1. sorrow, grief

• Icelandic: sorg
• Faroese: sorg
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: sorg

  Norwegian Nynorsk: sorg

• Old Swedish: sorgh
  • Swedish: sorg
• Danish: sorg

• sorg in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Borrowed from French sorgho, Italian sorgo.

sorg m (uncountable)

1. sorghum (cereal)

From Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”).

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sorg c

1. sorrow, grief

• sörja