guiera

guiera

Istriot

Etymology

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

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,