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hwearfian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
hwearfian, p. ode
Wright's OE grammar
§536;
To turn, change, roll about, revolve, wander, move, toss about
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  • Ic nú giet hwearfige mé self on ðǽm ýðum mínra scylda

    adhuc in delictorum fluctibus versor,

    • Past. 65, 7
      • ;
    • Swt. 467, 22
      • .

  • Ǽlc gesceaft hwearfaþ on hire selfre swá swá hweól and tó ðam heó swá hwearfaþ ðæt heó eft cume ðǽr heó ǽr wæs

    every creature turns on itself as a wheel, and it so turns to the end that it may come again where it was before:

    repetunt proprios quæque recursus, redituque suo singula gaudent

    ,
      Bt 25; Fox 88, 32: Bt. Met. Fox 13, 150; Met. 13, 75.

  • Hé biþ fremede freán ælmihtigum englum ungelíc ána hwearfaþ

    he shall be a stranger to the almighty Lord, unlike angels, alone shall he wander,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 70
      • ;
    • Sal. 35.

  • Drihtnes stíge hwearfaþ aa wísra gewyrdum

    Ascension-day ever changes according to the rules of the learned,

    • Menol. Fox 131
      • ;
    • Men. 65
      • .

  • Wé hwearfiaþ heánlíce

    we wander abjectly,

    • Exon. 13 a
      • ;
    • Th. 23, 21
      • ;
    • Cri. 372
      • .

  • Hálige englas ðǽrábútan hwearfiaþ

    holy angels hover round about the place,

    • L. C. E. 4
      • ;
    • Th. i. 360, 34
      • .

  • Ðú wást hú ða woruldsǽlþa hwearfiaþ ... hwí ne hwearfost ðú mid him

    thow knowest how worldly blessings change ... why dost thou not change with them?

    • Bt. 7, 2
      • ;
    • Fox 18, 6
      • .

  • Swá swá on wǽnes eaxe hwearfiaþ ða hweól

    as the wheels turn on the axle of a waggon,

    • 39, 7
      • ;
    • Fox 220, 32.

  • Gúþ hwearfode

    the battle rolled on

    [or could guþ here be taken as a person, one of the Valkyrias, and hwearfode = hover about, as in the passage above, L. C. E. 4 ?],

    • Cd. 149
      • ;
    • Th. 187, 29
      • ;
    • Exod. 159
      • .

  • Fana hwearfode on sceafte

    the banner waved on its staff,

    • Bt. Met. Fox 1, 20
      • ;
    • Met. 1, 10
      • .

  • Hwæt is ðé ðæt ðú ðǽrmid ne ne hwearfige

    why shouldest thou not change with them?

    • Bt. 7, 3
      • ;
    • Fox 22, 22
      • ,

  • Nis ǽnegu gesceaft ðe ne hwearfige swá swá hweól déþ,

    • Met. Fox 13, 147
      • ;
    • Met. 13, 74
      • .

  • Hwearfode,

    • 20, 411
      • ;
    • Met. 20, 206
      • .

  • Hwearfian,

    • Bt. 33, 4
      • ;
    • Fox 132, 11
      • .

  • Heán hwearfian

    to wander abject,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 1781
      • ;
    • An. 893
      • .

  • Fóran hwearfigende [hwearfiende, MS. Coll.] geond ðæt wésten

    they went wandering through the desert;

    per vasta deserti evagatur,

    • Ors. 6, 31
      • ;
    • Swt. 286, 19.
Etymology
[
Goth. hwarbón to go about
:
O. Sax. hwarƀón
:
Icel. hvarfa to wander about
:
O. H. Ger. hwarbón versari.
]
Linked entries
v.  hreafigende.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “hwearfian.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/20102.

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