werk

werk (plural werks)

1. Obsolete form of work.

• w**ker

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛːrk/

From Dutch werk, from Old Dutch *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werką, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom.

werk (plural werke, diminutive werkie)

1. work

• werkboek
• werkdier
• werktuig
• werkvloei
• werkwoord

From Dutch werken, from Middle Dutch werken, from Old Dutch wirken, wirkon (“to work, make”), from Proto-Germanic *wirkijaną (“to work, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-, *wreǵ- (“to work, act”).

werk (present werk, present participle werkende, past participle gewerk)

1. work

• werker

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛrk/

• audio

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• Hyphenation: werk
• Rhymes: -ɛrk

From Middle Dutch werc, from Old Dutch *werk, from Proto-West Germanic *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werką, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom.

werk n (plural werken, diminutive werkje n)

1. A task, job, chore.

   Het werk dat moest gebeuren, is voltooid. — The thing that must be done is finished.

2. A profession, job, employment, line of work.

   Het werk van Hans is buschauffeur. — The profession of Hans is bus driver.

3. A workplace

   Hans kwam vandaag te laat aan op het werk. — Today Hans arrived to the workplace too late.

4. A product, creation; production, output, result of work.

   Het werk van Magritte zal op de veiling verkocht worden. — The work of Magritte will be sold by auction.

5. (dialectal) tow, oakum

   Synonym: hede

• arbeid

- output, product(ion)

• werken

• Afrikaans: werk
  • → Tswana: bereke
    • → Yeyi: bbérìk-á
• Negerhollands: werk, wark
• Skepi Creole Dutch: wark
• → Saramaccan: wéíki

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

werk

1. first-person singular present indicative of werken
2. imperative of werken

• wirk, work

From Old English weorc, from Proto-West Germanic *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werką. Compare werken.

• IPA^(key): /wɛrk/, /wurk/

werk (plural werks)

1. work
2. sexual intercourse
   • 1422, James Yonge (translator), Secretum Secretorum:

     The work of matremony may be ussit and don... without anny Syn

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• English: work
• Scots: wark
• Yola: woork

• “werk, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Proto-West Germanic *werk, whence also Old High German werc, Old Norse verk.

werk n

1. work

Borrowed from German Werk, from Middle High German wërc, from Old High German werc, from Proto-West Germanic *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werką, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom. Possibly a doublet of wiersza (“fishing basket”).

• IPA^(key): /vɛrk/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛrk
• Syllabification: werk

werk m inan

1. (colloquial) clockwork

   Synonym: mechanizm zegarka

2. (engineering, obsolete) mechanism

   Synonym: mechanizm

3. (cinematography) photo documenting the film set

   Hypernym: zdjęcie

• werk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• werk in Polish dictionaries at PWN

werk (plural werkis)

1. Obsolete form of wirk (“work”).

• “wirk” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.