Borrowed fromYiddishוואָרט(vort,“word”).Doublet ofword.
FromMiddle High Germanvort, fromOld High Germanforth, fromProto-Germanic*furþą(“forward”). Cognate withGermanfort,Englishforth.
vort
vort (formal, neuter,commonvor,pluralvore)
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| common | neuter | plural | |||||
| Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
| Second | modern /informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine | |
| formal (uncommon) | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
| Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | |||
| feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
| common (noun) | den | dens | |||||
| neuter (noun) | det | dets | |||||
| indefinite | man | en | ens | ||||
| reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine | ||
| Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | ||
| archaic /formal | vor | vort | vore | ||||
| Second | – | I | jer | jeres | |||
| Third | – | de | dem | deres | |||
| reflexive | – | sig | |||||
vort
vort (used onlypredicatively,comparativemeer vort,superlativemeest vort)
vort
FromOld Dutch*furt, fromProto-Germanic*furduz, fromProto-Indo-European*pértus.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vort | vorde |
| accusative | vort | vorde |
| genitive | vorts | vorde |
| dative | vorde | vorden |
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vort | vorde |
| accusative | vort | vorde |
| genitive | vort,vorde | vorde |
| dative | vort,vorde | vorden |
FromMiddle Dutchvort, further etymology unclear.