Part of speech: verb
Verb type: weak verb (1)
to damage, injure; to spoil (also wyrdan, wirdan)
Etymology
[← Prot-Germ *wardjan; Goth fra-wardjan “to spoil; to destroy”; O Fris werda; O Sax a-werdian; OHG werten; firwerten “to destroy”]
Paradigm
4.2.1 (a)
(a) with a short root vowel
I class | infinitive | past tense singular |
to plough | erian | erede |
to perform, commit | fremman | fremede |
(b) with a long root vowel
I class | infinitive | past tense singular |
to feed | fédan | fédde |
to keep, observe | cépan | cépte |
to send | sendan | sende |
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