Lemizh / English dictionary

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