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Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *wernen, from Proto-West Germanic *warnijan.
Verb
wernen
- to refuse
- to prevent
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
Middle English
Etymology
Inherited from Old English wyrnan, weornan, wiernan (“to refuse, deny, withhold”), from Proto-West Germanic *warnijan. Doublet of garnysshen and warnysshen; also compare warnen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɛrnən/, /ˈwɛːrnən/, /ˈwarnən/
- (dialectal) IPA(key): /ˈwurnən/, /ˈwoːrnən/
Verb
wernen
- To deny or refuse; to reject a request or demand:
1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Prologe of the Tale of the Wẏf of Bathe”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published , →OCLC, folio 62, recto, lines 333-334:He is to greet a nygard / that wil werne / A man to lighte a candle / at his lanterne- He is so much of a miser that he'll stop / a man from lighting a candle in his lantern.
- To refuse to relinquish or surrender something.
- To close off; to prevent from passing or entering.
- To prevent or disallow (from happening):
- To challenge or obstruct; to be an impediment.
- To resist; to refuse to concede.
Conjugation
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
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