Etymology

worser

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Today it means: worse. Full definition →

English worse ← Middle English worse ← Old English wiersa
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*wers-
  2. Proto-Germanic*wirsizô
  3. Old Englishwiersa
  4. Middle Englishworse
  5. Englishworse
  6. English todayworser

From worse + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.