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Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *biwarjan. Cognate with Old High German biwerien. Equivalent to be- + werian.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bewerian
- to defend
- c. 992, Ælfric, "Palm Sunday: On the Lord's Passion"
- Swā fela þūsenda engla meahton ēaðe bewerian Crist wiþ þām unmannum, mid heofonlīcum wǣpnum, ġif hē þrōwian nolde selfwilles for ūs.
- That many thousands of angels could have easily defended Christ against those brutes [the men who came to arrest Jesus], with weapons from heaven, if he didn't want to suffer voluntarily for us.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "Palm Sunday: On the Lord's Passion"
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of bewerian (weak class 1)
infinitive | bewerian | bewerienne |
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indicative mood | present tense | past tense |
first person singular | bewerie | bewerede |
second person singular | bewerest | beweredest |
third person singular | bewereþ | bewerede |
plural | beweriaþ | beweredon |
subjunctive | present tense | past tense |
singular | bewerie | bewerede |
plural | bewerien | bewereden |
imperative | ||
singular | bewere | |
plural | beweriaþ | |
participle | present | past |
beweriende | bewered |