Dictionaries › Old English

hwearfian

Pronunciation: /ˈxwæ͜ɑr.fi.ɑn/

“hwearfian” is an Old English word. Its 4 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to turn on something (such as fate or a hinge), to revolve, to roll about
  2. to wander, to move
  3. to change
  4. to wave

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hwarbōn, from Proto-Germanic *hwarbōną (“to wander around”).

More Old English words

About this dictionary

The Old English dictionary on Glottosphere has 14,044 entries with a page. Browse the Old English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.