Mis-spówan

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

mis-spówan

to succeed badly :-- Hé sǽde ðæt hit ðæm cyninge læsse edwit wǽre, gif ðæm folce búton him misspeówe if it went ill with the people when he was not with them, Ors. 2, 5; Swt. 82, 34. mis-spowan