Belarusian: свет m ( svjet ), сьвет m ( sʹvjet ) ( Taraškievica ).Azerbaijani: dünya (az), aləm (az), cahan ( poetic ).Homophones: whirled, whorled ( both only in accents with the wine-whine merger and the fern-fir-fur merger ).( New Zealand ) enPR: wûrld, IPA ( key): /wɵːld/,.( General American, Canada ) enPR: wûrld, IPA ( key): /wɝld/.( Received Pronunciation ) IPA ( key): /wɜːld/.

World Wikipedia Alternative forms įrom Middle English world, weoreld, from Old English weorold ( “ world ” ), from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz ( “ lifetime, human existence, world ”, literally “ age/era of man ” ), equivalent to wer ( “ man ” ) +‎ eld ( “ age ” ).Ĭognate with Scots warld ( “ world ” ), Saterland Frisian Waareld ( “ world ” ), West Frisian wrâld ( “ world ” ), Afrikaans wêreld ( “ world ” ), Dutch wereld ( “ world ” ), Low German Werld ( “ world ” ), German Welt ( “ world ” ), Norwegian Bokmål verden ( “ world ” ), Norwegian Nynorsk verd ( “ world ” ), Swedish värld ( “ world ” ), Icelandic veröld ( “ the world ” ).

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