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dolour

Meaninggrieve

Common meaning: great sorrow

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√DAR‘tear, rend, rive’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 152, p. 735 · scan
  2. Latindolor‘grieve’source
  3. Old Frenchdoloursource
  4. Middle Englishmeaning shiftsgrieve → sorrowdolour‘sorrow’source
  5. Englishdolour‘great sorrow’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin dolor ‘grieve’.

Roots

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