Etymology

wors

W4O1R1S1

Today it means: boerewors Full definition →

Afrikaans wors ← Dutch worst
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Dutch · derived fromworst“sausage”
  2. Afrikaans · borrowed fromwors
  3. English todaywors

From Afrikaans wors, from Dutch worst (“sausage”). Doublet of wurst.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.