"dwergh" meaning in Middle English

See dwergh in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /dwɛrx/, /dwɛrf/, /ˈdwɛriu̯/, /ˈdwɛriː/, /ˈdwar-/, /dwarx/, /dwɛrx/ [Northern]
Etymology: From Old English dweorg, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz. Etymology templates: {{ety|enm|:inh|ang:dweorg}} [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*dwerg", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old English", "term" : "dweorg", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ang" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "dwergh", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "enm" }" data-lang="enm" data-title="dwergh">, {{inh|enm|ang|dweorg}} Old English dweorg, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*dwerg}} Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*dwergaz}} Proto-Germanic *dwergaz Head templates: {{head|enm|noun|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} dwergh, {{enm-noun|dwerghes}} dwergh (plural dwerghes) Forms: dwerghes [plural], duarf [alternative], duerf [alternative], duerwe [alternative], dwarfe [alternative], dwarff [alternative], dwarow [alternative], dwarw [alternative], dwerew [alternative], dwerf [alternative], dwerff [alternative], dwerffe [alternative], dwerk [alternative], dwerke [alternative], dweruf [alternative], dweruȝ [alternative], dwerw [alternative], dwerwh [alternative], dwery [alternative], dwæruh [alternative, Early-Middle-English], dueorg [alternative, Early-Middle-English], dwarghe [alternative, Northern], dwerghe [alternative, Northern], dwerȝe [alternative, Northern], dwerowe [alternative], dwerwhe [alternative]
  1. dwarf (individual with dwarfism)
    Sense id: en-dwergh-enm-noun-MzxVI~aQ Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 76 24 0
  2. dwarf, pygmy (member of a mythological race of dwarfs)
    Sense id: en-dwergh-enm-noun-YuS0yz6S Categories (other): Mythology Disambiguation of Mythology: 10 77 13
  3. (derogatory) A term of abuse for a short person. Tags: derogatory
    Sense id: en-dwergh-enm-noun-Y0MxYxQ0 Categories (other): Middle English entries with etymon, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with etymon Disambiguation of Middle English entries with etymon: 13 12 74 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 12 10 79 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 6 11 83 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 5 93 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 4 93 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 5 8 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Size Disambiguation of Size: 0 0 0

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-07-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-07-06 using wiktextract (e62056b and e7887d5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.