forhweorfan
Old English
verb
Definitions
- to pass away or be destroyed
Etymology
Prefix from Old English hweorfan (turn, turn from, wander about, change, be converted, come, depart, roam, move, go about, go, return, turn back, die).
Origin
Old English
hweorfan
Gloss
turn, turn from, wander about, change, be converted, come, depart, roam, move, go about, go, return, turn back, die
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
帰
Emoji
🙃
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *hwerbaną Proto-Germanic
- *hweorflian Old English
- ahweorfan Old English
- andhweorfan Old English
- behweorfan Old English
- efthweorfan Old English
- framhweorfan Old English
- geanhweorfan Old English
- gehweorfan Old English
- geondhweorfan Old English
- hwearfan Old English
- hweorfan Old English
- mishweorfan Old English
- ongeanhweorfan Old English
- onhweorfan Old English
- sinhweorfan Old English
- tohweorfan Old English
- ymbhweorfan Old English
- æthweorfan Old English
- wharven Middle English