yrka
Swedish
verb-reg
Definitions
- to urge, require, demand
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish yrkia inherited from Old Norse yrkja (work) inherited from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (work).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wurkijaną
Gloss
work
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
- forirk English
- irk English
- irketh English
- irksome English
- irky English
- *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wṛǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wurkijaną Proto-Germanic
- wyrcan Old English
- wyrċan Old English
- irken Middle English
- orka Old Norse
- yrkja Old Norse
- 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃𐍄𐍅 Gothic
- *pürkidäk Proto-Finnic
- workian Old Saxon
- yrkia Old Swedish
- örk Westrobothnian
- warthata Crimean Gothic