Wǽfan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wǽfan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

wǽfan
p. de To wrap up, clothe :-- Utan wǽfan nacode, Wulfst. 119, 6. [Goth. bi-waibjan to clothe. In later English the verb expresses motion :-- Þe ivele gost weneð wide and wandreð (vadit, O. H. Ger. za-weiben dispergere; weibón fluere, fluitare, agitari: Icel. veifa to wave, vibrate.] v. be-, ymbe-wǽfen, and next word. wæfan

Related words: Mt. 12, 43), O. E. Homl. ii. 85, 33. Ich smet of Modred is hafd þat hit wond (wefde, 2nd MS.) a þene weld, Laym. 28049. Þa cnihtes wefden up þa castles ȝæte, 19003. Cf.

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