sorg

• IPA^(key): /sɔrχ/

From Dutch zorg.

sorg (plural sorge)

1. care; worry; concern

From Dutch zorgen.

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

1. to care; to care for

• sorre (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /sɔrˀɣ/, ,
• Homophone: sov

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

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sorg

1. imperative singular 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

   Synonyms: harmur, hryggð

2. mourning

• 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
• omsorg
• sorgløs
• ta sorgene på forskudd

• 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
• omsorg
• ta sorgene på forskot

• sørgja, sørgje, syrgja, syrgje ("to mourn, take care")

• “sorg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• sorh

From Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surgō.

Cognate with Old Frisian sorge, Old Saxon sorga, Old Dutch sorga, Old High German sorga, Old Norse sorg, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐌰 (saurga).

• IPA^(key): /sorɡ/,

sorg f

1. worry, anxiety
2. sorrow, grief
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     oþþe mec frēondlēasne · frēfran wolde,
     wēman mid wynnum. · Wāt sē þe cunnað,
     hū slīþen bið · sorg tō ġefēran,
     þām þe him lȳt hafað · lēofra ġeholena.

     or friendless me would soothe,
     allure with glees. Knows the one who undergoes,
     how tough is sorrow as a companion,
     to whom little has dear confidants for himself.

Strong ō-stem:

• sorgful
• sorgian
• sorglēas
• orsorg

• Middle English: sorȝe, sorwe, sorow
  • English: sorrow
  • Scots: sorow

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 (genitive sorgar, plural sorgir)

1. sorrow, grief

• Icelandic: sorg
• Faroese: sorg
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sorg
• Norwegian Bokmål: 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.

• IPA^(key): /sorɡ/

sorg m (uncountable)

1. sorghum (cereal)

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

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• IPA^(key): /sɔrj/

sorg c

1. sorrow, sadness (usually due to loss or other misfortune, often someone's death)

   Det var en djup sorg i hennes ögon

   There was a deep sadness in her eyes

   dränka sina sorger

   drown one's sorrows

   1. mourning, grief

      sorgen efter hans döda kanin

      his mourning for his dead rabbit

      sorg och saknad

      grief and loss

      svår sorg

      severe grief

      Jag beklagar sorgen

      I am sorry for your loss

      hantera sorg

      cope with grief / deal with loss

2. a sorrow (something causing sorrow)

   Att tvingas stänga teatern är en stor sorg

   Being forced to close the theater is a great sorrow

• glädje

• sorglig
• sorgsen
• sörja

• ledsen
• lidande
• saknad

• sorg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sorg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sorg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)