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English
Verb
gnawn
- (archaic) past participle of gnaw
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 47:ſee the hell of hauing a false woman : my bed ſhall be abus'd, my Coffers ranſack'd, my reputation gnawne at, and I ſhall only receiue this villanous wrong, but ſtand vnder the adoption of abhominable termes […]
Synonyms
Welsh
Pronunciation
Verb
gnawn
- inflection of gwneud:
- first-person plural future colloquial
- first-person singular conditional colloquial
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.