whore

whore
\ \ [OE] A whore is etymologically a ‘lover’.
\ \ The word goes back ultimately to the Indo- European base *qār-, which also produced Latin cārusdear’ (source of English caress and charity), Old Irish caraimI love’, and Latvian kārsrandy, greedy’. It gave prehistoric Germanic *khōrōn, which evolved into German hure, Dutch hoer, Swedish hora, Danish hore, and English whore (whose wh- spelling first appeared in the 16th century).
\ \ Cf.CARESS, CHARITY

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