warray

English

Alternative forms

• warrey

Etymology

From Middle English werreyen, from Old Northern French werreier, from Vulgar Latin *werrizāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɒɹi/, /wəˈɹeɪ/

Verb

warray (third-person singular simple present warrays, present participle warraying, simple past and past participle warrayed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To wage war against.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And them long time before, great Nimrod was,
     That first the world with sword and fire warrayd […]

Gamilaraay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaraj/

Verb

warray

1. swell

References

• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary