Old English sorg "grief, regret, trouble, care, pain, anxiety," from Proto-Germanic *sorg- (cognates: Old Saxon sorga, Old Norse sorg, Middle Dutch sorghe, Dutch zorg, Old High German soraga, German sorge, Gothic saurga), perhaps from PIE *swergh- "to worry, be sick" (cognates: Sanskrit surksati "cares for," Lithuanian sergu "to be sick," Old Church Slavonic sraga "sickness," Old Irish serg "sickness"). Not connected etymologically with sore (adj.) or sorry.
sorrow (v.)
Old English sorgian, from sorg (see sorrow (n.)). Related: Sorrowed; sorrowing. Compare Dutch zorgen, German sorgen, Gothic saurgan.
例文
1. He always woke with a sense of deep sorrow and depressing loss.
彼は目が覚めるといつも哀愁に満ち、憂鬱で憂鬱だった。
2.Gertrude now clearly felt that she had obtruded her sorrow .
ガートルードこの時、自分の悲しい感情が他人に影響を与えていることを明らかに気づいた。
3.He felt a great weight of sorrow inside him.
彼は心の中で非常に沈痛に感じている。
4.As he looked at Katherine,great sorrow clouded his eyes.
彼はキャサリンを見て、目を悲しませた。/
5. "Oh, I despair sometimes," he says in mock sorrow .