vort

Borrowed from Yiddish וואָרט (vort, “word”). Doublet of word.

• IPA^(key): /vɔɹt/

vort (plural vorts or vertlach)

1. (Judaism) A short Torah lesson, thought, or insightful saying, often shared at a wedding, gathering, or celebration.
   • 2002 November 12, Sammy, quoting unknown source, “Eim Ha-Banim S'meikha”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated‎^[1] (Usenet):

     He confuses his personal feelings with Halachic methodology, Rebbishe vertlach with Halachic rulings, and so is not at all compelling.

2. (Judaism, by extension) An engagement party in Orthodox Jewish communities.

• drasha
• chidush
• dvar Torah
• l'chaim

From Middle High German vort, from Old High German forth, from Proto-Germanic *furþą (“forward”). Cognate with German fort, English forth.

vort

1. (Luserna) away

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɒd̥], [vɒd̥]

vort (formal, neuter, common vor, plural vore)

1. (formal) our/ours, neuter of vor

• IPA^(key): /vɔrt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrt

vort

1. informal form of voort

vort (used only predicatively, comparative meer vort, superlative meest vort)

1. (informal) gone, lost, vanished

   Mijn leesbril is vort. ― My reading glasses are lost.

   Tegen de tijd dat de politie arriveerde was hij vort. ― By the time the police arrived, he was gone.

vort

1. (informal) go! move!

From Old Dutch *furt, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus.

vort m or f

1. ford
2. escape route

• vōort

• Dutch: voorde f, voord m, (archaic) voort m

• “vort”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “vort”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Middle Dutch vort, further etymology unclear.

vort (comparative vorter, superlative vortste)

1. rotten, spoiled
2. dirty