wor · determiner1
- Old Norse · derived fromvárr“our”
- English todaywor
Likely ultimately a borrowing into Northumbrian Old English from Old Norse várr (“our”) (from the same Proto-Germanic root *unseraz that produced Standard English our). Compare Scots wir.
wor · verb2
From an altered pronunciation of was.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.