Noun: weorc
Gender: n
Nominative
| Singular | weorc |
| Plural | weorc |
Genitive
| Singular | weorces |
| Plural | weorca |
Dative
| Singular | weorce |
| Plural | weorcum |
Accusative
| Singular | weorc |
| Plural | weorc |
Sample Sentences
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c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints
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Þā ēode sē prēost eft tō his weorce. (Then the priest went back to his work.)
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late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
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Gyf þonne ǣfre gebyreð þæt þū þē ful hālne and ful trumne ongytst, and hæafst æalle þīne frēond myd þē, ǣġðer ge on mōde ge on līchaman, and on ðām ilcan worce and on ðām ylcan willum ðe ðē best lyst dōn, hweðer þū ðonne wille bēon āwiht blīðe? (If then it ever happen that thou shalt find thyself full whole and full strong, and hast all thy friends with thee, both in mind and in body, and in that same work and in that same will which pleaseth thee best to do, wilt thou then be happy at all?)
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On ðām forman dæġe ūre drihten ġesċeōp seofonfealde weorc, ðæt wǣron ealle englas, and ðǣs lēohtes anġin, and ðæt antimber ðe hē of ġesċeōp syððan ġesċeafta, ðā upplīċan heofenan and ðā nyðerlīċan eorðan, ealle wætersċypas, and ða widgillan sǣ, and ðæt uppliċe lyft, eall on anū dæġe. (On the first day our Lord created seven works, which were: all of the angels; the beginning of light; the substance from which he later made all the creatures; the high heavens; the low earth; all the bodies of water; the wide ocean; and the lofty sky, all in a single day.) [c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, transl., Hexameron of St. Basil:]
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Weorc sprecaþ swīðor þonne word. (Actions speak louder than words.)
Nouns inflected like weorc
hildebord,
fierdfæreld,
mearcland,
berland,
furlang,
cynebearn,
sundorriht,
sweostorbearn,
feaxnett,
sandland,
sandcorn,
wuldorwerod,
wyrmcynn,
feldland,
cweartern,
feohland,
landfæsten,
sundcorn,
meterfers,
framfæreld, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-om
4. Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
5. Proto-Germanic *werką
6. Proto-West Germanic *werk
7. Old English weorc
8. From Proto-West Germanic *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werką, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom.
9. Cognate with Old Frisian werk, Old Saxon werk, Old High German wërk, Old Norse verk. Non-Germanic cognates include Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon). See: Old Norse Nouns '
verk', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἔργον'.
Verbs referencing "weorc"
English Nouns
work, Middle English Nouns
werk, Ancient Greek Nouns
ἔργον, Old Norse Nouns
verk.
Translations