sorrow

Meanings

Noun

• unhappiness, woe
• An instance or cause of unhappiness.

Verb

• To feel or express grief.
• To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

Origin

• From Middle English sorow, sorwe, from Old English sorg, from Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surgō (compare West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (compare Old Irish serg, Tocharian B sark, Lithuanian sirgti, Sanskrit सूर्क्षति.