wers- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	wers-
DEFINITION:	To confuse, mix up. Compare ers-. I. Suffixed basic form. 1a. war, from Old North French werre, war; b. guerrilla, from Spanish guerra, war. Both a and b from Germanic werra-, from werz-a-. 2. worse, from Old English wyrsa, worse, from Germanic comparative wers-izn-. 3. worst, from Old English wyrsta,* worst, from Germanic superlative wers-istaz. II.* Suffixed zero-grade form ws-ti-. wurst; liverwurst, from Old High German wurst,* sausage (< “mixture”), from Germanic wursti-. (Pokorny ers-* 1169.)


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