worth

Meanings

Adjective

• Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
• Deserving of.
• Valuable, worthwhile.
• Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

Noun

• Value.
• Merit, excellence.
• Wealth, fortune, riches, property, possessions.
• An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.

Verb

• To be, become, betide.

Origin

• From Middle English worth, from Old English weorþ, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz; from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
• Cognate with Dutch waard, Low German weert, German wert, Wert, Swedish värd, Welsh gwerth.
• From Middle English worthen, wurthen, werthen, from Old English weorþan, from Proto-West Germanic *werþan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
• Cognate with Dutch worden, Low German warrn, German werden, Old Norse verða (Norwegian verta, Swedish varda), Latin vertere.