become.3sg clear

weorþan

V

to come to be, to be made, to arise, come, be

Source: https://bosworthtoller.com/35305

originates from: PWGmc *werþan 'to become' (oe-breaking-before-rc-lc) through pwgmc-to-oe

(source: Ringe 2014:182)

Inflected forms

wearð 'become.pst.3sg' (oe-past-3sg) in Ætherlwold's Reforms

weorþaþ 'become-pres.3pl' (oe-3pl) in Exeter Book Riddle 5

Words derived with affix:

forweorþan 'perish'

Paradigms