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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwɑːɡ/, /ˈwɔːɡ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈwoɹɡ/
• 韻: -ɑːɡ, -ɔːɡ

名詞

warg (plural wargs)

1. (fantasy, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf. [from 20th c.]
   • 1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August 1967 printing), →OCLC, page 105:

     But even the wild Wargs (for so the evil wolves over the Edge of the Wild were named) cannot climb trees. […] Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together, and their dreadful clamour almost made the hobbit fall out of his pine-tree.

   • 1993, jbatka, “Multiple colors for PC compatible”, in rec.hack (Usenet):

     My question is do all of the executable versions for PC compatibles have the color option enabled? If so, what am I missing to not get say yellow for a hill orc, grey for a goblin, white for my pet, red for a wolf, brown for a warg, etc?

   • 1999, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 462:

     He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs.

   • 2007, Stephen O. Glosecki, Myth in Northwest Europe:

     The monsters are identified not as trolls, a word apparently not available in English at the time, but (among other things) as wargs, whatever that means; Grendel is called a heoro-wearh at line 1267 and his mother a grund-wyrgen at line 1518.

動詞

warg (third-person singular simple present wargs, present participle warging, simple past and past participle warged)

1. (fantasy, fandom slang) To possess the mind of (and see through the eyes of) another person or animal.
   • 2016, Carolyne Larrington, Winter Is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones‎, page 59:

     Even in far-off Braavos, Arya has wolf-dreams, and she can warg into Nymeria’s body; it’s thus that she discovers Catelyn’s body floating in the Trident and drags it out (SS, 65).

   • 2017, Rowan Kaiser, 100 Things Game of Thrones Fans Should Do & Know Before They Die‎, page 72:

     Hodor’s origin is finally revealed as well, with Bran warging into the big man’s body.

   • 2017, Erik Baldwin, “How Can We Know Anything in a World of Magic and Miracles?”, in Eric J. Silverman, Robert Arp, editors, The Ultimate Game of Thrones and Philosophy: You Think or Die‎, page 189:

     As he was dying, Varamyr Sixskins of the Free Folk warged into his wolf One Eye (A Dance with Dragons).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:warg.
2. (Crusader Kings fandom slang) To switch to another player character during a game.
   • 2016 January 22, [deleted account], Reddit‎:

     I died and warged into my son, and waited around for a succession war in England.

   • 2016 April 9, murphylawson, Reddit‎:

     If you let yourself warg into him when you die you get his money anyway

   • 2018 June 25, Uberguuy, Reddit‎:

     The quickest way to unmarry an unlanded character is to land them (via console of otherwise), warg into them, divorce, go back to your character, and take the land back.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:warg.

参考

• dire wolf

アナグラム

• GAWR, Garw

名詞

warg m (Anglian)

1. alternative form of wearg

語形変化

Strong a-stem: