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wrOnà.
to make metaphors, to make metaphorical, to express something-dat as/using a metaphor-acc
Etymology
< NLem wrOn‑a
< LMLem wer‑en‑yr ‘trope, metaphor’, compound of
LMLem, MLem wer‑a ‘carry, bear’
< OLem wer‑
< PLem *bwer‑, Narten present of
< PIE *bʰer‑
—and—
LMLem, MLem en ‘between’
< OLem hen ‘in’
< PLem *hen
< PIE *h₁en
This is a calque of Koi μεταφορά ‘trope, metaphor’.
Cognates
Eng bear ‘carry’; Eng in