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>>193 の続き 【動詞としての worth の語源】
Etymology:
★Common Germanic:
●Old English ★weorðan★ , wurðan (wearþ , wurdon , geworden )
= Old Frisian wertha , wirtha , wirda (West Frisian wirde ),
●Old Saxon werđan (Middle Low German and Low German ★werden★ ;
●Middle Dutch and Dutch worden ),
●Old High German werdan , werthan (Middle High German and German werden ),
●Old Norse and Icelandic verða
(Norwegian dialect verda , verta , Middle Swedish varþa , vardha , Swedish varda , Danish vorde ),
●Gothic wairþan . The stem is probably the same as that of Latin vertĕre , Old Slavonic vrŭtĕti , vratiti (Russian vertjet' ),
●Lithuanian versti (stem ★vert-★ ),
●Sanskrit vṛit (vártatē , vartti ) to turn, the sense in Germanic having developed into that of ★‘to turn into’, ‘to become’★.
Compare ★-ward★ suffix.
(OED Online)