wern

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English

Alternative forms

weren
wurn (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English weren, equivalent to were +‎ -en.

Verb

wern

(obsolete) plural simple past of be
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. , part II (books IV–VI), London: ">…] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 32:
  Her name was Agape whoſe children werne
  All three as one, the firſt hight Priamond,
  The ſecond Dyamond, the youngeſt Triamond.
- 1843, John Ward, “Chapter XI. Burslem-(Continued.)”, in The Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent in the Commencement of the Reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria , London: W. Lewis & Son, A Burslem Dialogue, page 230:
  T. Oi've yerd em sey, yo' wern aw lung-woinded at that teyme; wur it so, Rafy?
- 1910, “Glasgerion”, in Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse:
  Through the falseness of that lither lad
  These three lives wern all gone.

Anagrams

Wren, wren

Middle English

Verb

wern

alternative form of weren
To refuse.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, , →OCLC; republished in , editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, , : Iohn Reynes , 1542, →OCLC:
  He is too great a niggard that will wern/ A man to light a candle at his lantern.
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