hweorfan
Old English
verb
Definitions
- to turn, change
- to depart, go, proceed
- to travel, roam, go about, wander, move about
- to return
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną (turn).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*hwerbaną
Gloss
turn
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- wharf English
- wharfage English
- wharfie English
- wharfing English
- wharflike English
- wharfman English
- wharfmaster English
- wharfside English
- wharve English
- werben German
- werf Dutch, Flemish
- *hwerbaną Proto-Germanic
- kverva Norwegian Nynorsk
- *hweorflian Old English
- ahweorfan Old English
- andhweorfan Old English
- behweorfan Old English
- efthweorfan Old English
- forhweorfan Old English
- framhweorfan Old English
- geanhweorfan Old English
- gehweorfan Old English
- geondhweorfan Old English
- hwearfan Old English
- mishweorfan Old English
- ongeanhweorfan Old English
- onhweorfan Old English
- sinhweorfan Old English
- tohweorfan Old English
- ymbhweorfan Old English
- æthweorfan Old English
- wharf Middle English
- wharven Middle English
- whirlen Middle English
- hverfa Old Norse
- hvirfill Old Norse
- hvirfing Old Norse
- hvirfingr Old Norse
- hvirfla Old Norse
- hverfa Icelandic
- hvørva Faroese
- 𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌱𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *wervan Old Dutch
- bihwervan Old Saxon
- gihwervan Old Saxon
- hwervan Old Saxon
- umbihwervan Old Saxon
- hværva Old Swedish
- hväärv Westrobothnian
- ihhofu Zulu
- o̧b Marshallese
- wab Marshallese
- wap Tok Pisin