"cweþan" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Old English]

IPA: /ˈkwe.θɑn/, [ˈkwe.ðɑn]
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *kweþan, from Proto-Germanic *kweþaną. Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*kweþan}} Proto-West Germanic *kweþan, {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*kweþaną}} Proto-Germanic *kweþaną Head templates: {{ang-verb}} cweþan Inflection templates: {{ang-conj|cweþan<s5v>}} Forms: strong [table-tags], cweþan [infinitive], cweþenne [infinitive], cweþe [first-person, present, singular], cwæþ [first-person, past, singular], cwist [present, second-person, singular], cwǣde [past, second-person, singular], cwiþþ [present, singular, third-person], cwiþ [present, singular, third-person], cwæþ [past, singular, third-person], cweþaþ [plural, present], cwǣdon [past, plural], cweþe [present, singular], cwǣde [past, singular], cweþen [plural, present], cwǣden [past, plural], cweþ [imperative, past, present, singular], cweþaþ [imperative, past, plural, present], cweþende [imperative, present], cweden [imperative, past], ġecweden [imperative, past]
  1. to say Tags: West-Saxon
    Sense id: en-cweþan-ang-verb-KlHIAFBs
  2. to speak Tags: West-Saxon
    Sense id: en-cweþan-ang-verb-TKdixBly
  3. to mention Tags: West-Saxon
    Sense id: en-cweþan-ang-verb-H0DSAvd6 Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, West Saxon Old English Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 8 8 85 Disambiguation of West Saxon Old English: 7 7 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cweðan (english: edh spelling), cwoða — Northumbrian

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "æftercweþan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "becweþan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "cwed"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "cwist þu la"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "forcweþan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "miscweþan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "oncweþan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "tōcweþan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "weargcweþan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "yfelcweþan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ġecweþan"
    }
  ],
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      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
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          },
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          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: quethen, cwethen, cweþen, cweðen, queðen, qwethyn, qweþe, queþen, quethe, queþe, queden, cwæthen\nEnglish: quethe (obsolete except in past tense quoth)\nScots: quethe (noun)\nYola: co, quo"
    }
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "5",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþenne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwæþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwǣde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwiþþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwiþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwæþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwǣdon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwǣde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwǣden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġecweden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cweþan",
      "name": "ang-verb"
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      "args": {
        "1": "cweþan<s5v>"
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    }
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  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "She said she was a doctor.",
          "text": "Hēo cwæþ þæt hēo wǣre lācnestre.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "The raven said, \"Never again.\"",
          "text": "Cwæþ sē hræfn, \"Nǣfre mā.\"",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Then they said to him, \"Where is he?\" And he said, \"I don't know.\"",
          "roman": "Þā cwǣdon hīe tō him, \"Hwǣr is hē?\" Þā cwæþ hē, \"Iċ nāt.\"",
          "text": "c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 9:12",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "to say"
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      "id": "en-cweþan-ang-verb-KlHIAFBs",
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          "say",
          "say"
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      "tags": [
        "West-Saxon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "...he had never before been able to speak,...",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Saint Swithhun, Bishop\"\n...he næfre ær naht cweðan ne mihte...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        [
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          "speak"
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      "tags": [
        "West-Saxon"
      ]
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 7 87",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "West Saxon Old English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "english": "It was known to the people that Christ a little before had raised Lazarus from death, who had lain stinking four nights in the grave: then those, who were believing, came to meet Christ with the honours which we have already mentioned.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"For Palm Sunday\"\nÞam folce wearð cūð þæt se Hælend arærde lytle ær Lazarum of deaðe, seðe læg stincende feower niht on byrgene: þa comon þa togeanes Criste þe geleaffulle wæron, mid þam wurðmynte, swa we ǣr cwædon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "to mention"
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      "links": [
        [
          "mention",
          "mention"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "West-Saxon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkwe.θɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkwe.ðɑn]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "edh spelling",
      "word": "cweðan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "cwoða — Northumbrian"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cweþan"
}
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    "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old English lemmas",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Old English verbs",
    "West Saxon Old English"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "æftercweþan"
    },
    {
      "word": "becweþan"
    },
    {
      "word": "cwed"
    },
    {
      "word": "cwist þu la"
    },
    {
      "word": "forcweþan"
    },
    {
      "word": "miscweþan"
    },
    {
      "word": "oncweþan"
    },
    {
      "word": "tōcweþan"
    },
    {
      "word": "weargcweþan"
    },
    {
      "word": "yfelcweþan"
    },
    {
      "word": "ġecweþan"
    }
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        }
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      "text": "Middle English: quethen, cwethen, cweþen, cweðen, queðen, qwethyn, qweþe, queþen, quethe, queþe, queden, cwæthen\nEnglish: quethe (obsolete except in past tense quoth)\nScots: quethe (noun)\nYola: co, quo"
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  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *kweþan, from Proto-Germanic *kweþaną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "5",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþenne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwæþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwǣde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwiþþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwiþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwæþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwǣdon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwǣde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwǣden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweþende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cweden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġecweden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
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  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations",
        "Old English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "She said she was a doctor.",
          "text": "Hēo cwæþ þæt hēo wǣre lācnestre.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "The raven said, \"Never again.\"",
          "text": "Cwæþ sē hræfn, \"Nǣfre mā.\"",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Then they said to him, \"Where is he?\" And he said, \"I don't know.\"",
          "roman": "Þā cwǣdon hīe tō him, \"Hwǣr is hē?\" Þā cwæþ hē, \"Iċ nāt.\"",
          "text": "c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 9:12",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to say"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "say",
          "say"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "West-Saxon"
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    },
    {
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        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "...he had never before been able to speak,...",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Saint Swithhun, Bishop\"\n...he næfre ær naht cweðan ne mihte...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to speak"
      ],
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        [
          "speak",
          "speak"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "West-Saxon"
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    {
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        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It was known to the people that Christ a little before had raised Lazarus from death, who had lain stinking four nights in the grave: then those, who were believing, came to meet Christ with the honours which we have already mentioned.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"For Palm Sunday\"\nÞam folce wearð cūð þæt se Hælend arærde lytle ær Lazarum of deaðe, seðe læg stincende feower niht on byrgene: þa comon þa togeanes Criste þe geleaffulle wæron, mid þam wurðmynte, swa we ǣr cwædon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to mention"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mention",
          "mention"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "West-Saxon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkwe.θɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkwe.ðɑn]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "edh spelling",
      "word": "cweðan"
    },
    {
      "word": "cwoða — Northumbrian"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cweþan"
}

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