sorriness
English
noun
Definitions
- The state or quality of being sorry; regret.
- Worthlessness; wretchedness.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sorinesse inherited from Old English sāriġness suffix from English sorry.
Origin
English
sorry
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sore English
- sorrily English
- sorry English
- sorryful English
- sorryish English
- supersorry English
- unsorry English
- sori Finnish
- sorry Dutch, Flemish
- сори Russian
- сорри Russian
- sorry Spanish, Castilian
- sorry Swedish
- sorry Polish
- sāriġness Old English
- sorinesse Middle English
- sory Middle English
- sorry Czech
- sori Serbo-Croatian
- सॉरी Hindi
- ဆောရီး Burmese
- sori Tok Pisin
- sori Mauritian Creole