Where does “dwerȝ” come from?

dwerȝ (Middle English) comes from Old English dweorg, from Proto-West Germanic dwerg, from Proto-Germanic dwergaz — dwarf.

Ancestry of “dwerȝ”, step by step

dwerȝ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old English dweorg

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishdweorgdwarf
2Proto-West Germanicdwergdwarf
3Proto-Germanicdwergazdwarf

via Old English dweorh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishdweorh—

Words derived from “dwerȝ”

Every word from Proto-Germanic dwergaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic dwerg →Every word from Old English dweorg →
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