orgasm
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- orgasm
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek ὀργασμός (orgasm, excitement, swelling) root from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (work, make, act, produce, makeVerb).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*werǵ-
Gloss
work, make, act, produce, makeVerb
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
働
Emoji
✂️ 🏗️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- irksomely English
- irksomeness English
- irky English
- organicus Latin
- orgasmus Latin
- urgentem Latin
- Gewerk German
- Gewirk German
- Wirklichkeit German
- werkeln German
- wirklich German
- wirksam German
- organizzarsi Italian
- orgasmo Italian
- orgasme French
- орга́зм Russian
- оргазм Russian
- orgasmo Spanish, Castilian
- γεωργία Ancient Greek
- γεωργός Ancient Greek
- κακοῦργος Ancient Greek
- συνήθης Ancient Greek
- ἐνέργεια Ancient Greek
- ἐνεργέω Ancient Greek
- ἐργάζομαι Ancient Greek
- ἐργάτης Ancient Greek
- ἐργώδης Ancient Greek
- ἐόργη Ancient Greek
- ἔργον Ancient Greek
- ὀργάω Ancient Greek
- ὀργασμός Ancient Greek
- ὄργανον Ancient Greek
- ὄργια Ancient Greek
- *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *worǵéh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *wréǵ-ye- Proto-Indo-European
- *wr̥ǵyéti, *wérǵ-ye- Proto-Indo-European
- *wérǵom Proto-Indo-European
- orgasme Norwegian Bokmål
- orgasmo Portuguese
- *dagawerką Proto-Germanic
- *handuwerką Proto-Germanic
- *warkiz Proto-Germanic
- *werkōną Proto-Germanic
- *wirkijaną Proto-Germanic
- *wurkijaną Proto-Germanic
- orgasme Norwegian Nynorsk
- weorcsum Old English
- orgasme Danish
- orgasmo Galician
- fercaigidir Old Irish
- оргазъм Bulgarian
- argëtoj Albanian
- *wurhtijō gmw-pro
- *wregeti Proto-Celtic
- оргазм Ukrainian
- *warȷ́- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- аргазм Belarusian
- orgazem Slovene
- orgazmas Lithuanian
- vergas Lithuanian
- orgasmo Basque
- *pati- Proto-Iranian
- *warj- Proto-Iranian
- *wärk- Proto-Tocharian
- uorgazmos Samogitian