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Estonian
Etymology
From Middle Low German werk (“work, action”).
Pronunciation
Noun
värk (genitive värgi, partitive värki)
- (colloquial) stuff, things
Declension
Further reading
- “värk”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “värk”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- värk in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish værker, from Old Norse verkr, from Proto-Germanic *warkiz, from Proto-Indo-European *werg- (“to suffer”).
Noun
värk c
- (uncountable) ache; continuous, dull pain
- (usually in the plural) labor pain, contraction (a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth)
Declension
See also
Etymology 2
Verb
värk
- imperative of värka
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