Tó-hweorfan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - tó-hweorfan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

tó-hweorfan
p. -hwearf, pl. -hwurfen; pp. -hworfen To go in different directions, to part, separate. I. of two persons or parties :--Ða cyningas cómon tógædere and heora freóndscipe gefæstnodon ... And hí tóhwurfon ðá mid ðisum sehte, Chr. 1016; Erl. 159, 5 : 1091 ; Erl. 228, 8: 1093; Erl. 228, 39. II. of many persons, to disperse :--Eal seó fyrding tóhwearf. Chr. 1094 ; Erl. 230, 24. Ecgbryht lǽdde fierd wiþ Norþanhymbre, and hié him eáþmēdo budon, and hié on ðam tóhwurfon, 827; Erl. 64, 9. Siendon wé tówrecene geond wídnegrund, heápum tóhworfene (-hworfne, Exon. Th. 186, 19; Az. 22) we are scattered in exile through the wide world, dispersed in bands, Cd. Th.235, 6; Dan. 302. Cf. tó-cirran. to-hweorfan
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