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English
Etymology
From be- (“around, about”) + wander. Compare Saterland Frisian bewonderje, Middle Dutch bewanderen, German bewandern.
Verb
bewander (third-person singular simple present bewanders, present participle bewandering, simple past and past participle bewandered)
- (intransitive) To wander around or about; roam.
1839, The New Sporting Magazine:Or 'twas wont to be so, / Just a few years ago, / At the time when Jack used to bewander to know, / That a Corporal's Guard Left the Old Barrack […]
1907, Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman, The Heart of the empire:The spring and the winter came unsought into every man's life, not as they come to-day, wayfarers bewandered among the house-tops, feebly whispering of unknown things in far salubrious lands, […]
1996, Richard F. Burton (Translator), The Arabian Nights:[…] and anon the case became grievous to her and she set out to bewander the regions saying, "Haply shall Allah reunite me with my children and my husband!"