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Old English
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Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *werþan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną (“to become”), from Proto-Indo-European *wértti (“to be turning”).
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Verb
weorþan
- to become
- (auxiliary) to be (used to form the passive voice)
- c. 992, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"
Hē ārās þā ġesund, swelċe of slǣpe āwreaht, and begann tō wundrienne hū hē wurde þæder ġebrōht.- Then he got up safe and sound, as if woken from sleep, and began to wonder how he got there. (Lit. How he be thither brought)
- to happen
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