sory
Middle English
/ˈsɔːriː/
adj
Definitions
- sad, sorrowful
- pitiful, downtrodden, dismal:
- iniquitous, malicious; having bad intentions
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sāriġ (mournful, feeling expressing grief, bitter, sorrowful, sorry, grieved, sad) inherited from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (sad) affix from Middle English sore.
Origin
Middle English
sore
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sore English
- sorrily English
- sorriness English
- sorry English
- sorryful English
- sorryish English
- supersorry English
- unsorry English
- sori Finnish
- sorry Dutch, Flemish
- сори Russian
- сорри Russian
- sorry Spanish, Castilian
- *sayǝw- Proto-Indo-European
- *sairagaz Proto-Germanic
- sorry Swedish
- sorry Polish
- sarig Old English
- sāriġ Old English
- sāriġlīċ Old English
- sāriġness Old English
- sore Middle English
- sorely Middle English
- sorenes Middle English
- sorhed Middle English
- sorinesse Middle English
- soryly Middle English
- sorry Czech
- seür Old French
- sori Serbo-Croatian
- सॉरी Hindi
- ဆောရီး Burmese
- sērich Old Frisian
- sori Tok Pisin
- sori Mauritian Creole