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guiera

guiera

Istriot

Noun

guiera f

  1. war
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 68:
      I’ son stato a la guiera, a la batalgia,
      I have been to war, and to battle,

Etymology

From Late Latin *werra, *guerra, from Frankish *werra ‎(“riot, disturbance, quarrel”) from Proto-Germanic *werrō ‎(“confusion, disarray”). Compare Italian guerra.

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