־וואַרג

From Middle High German wërk, from Old High German werc, werh, werk, from Proto-West Germanic *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werką, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom. Cognate to German Werk, English work. The development of Middle High German erC > Yiddish arC is regular; compare האַרץ (harts), האַרבסט (harbst) etc.

־וואַרג • (-varg)

1. -ness
2. material

• Often used analogously to German -ware, English -ware by phono-semantic matching. These words are not originally related.

• Beider, Alexander (2015), Origins of Yiddish Dialects, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 137