"bemourn" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: bemourns [present, singular, third-person], bemourning [participle, present], bemourned [participle, past], bemourned [past]
Etymology: From Middle English bemornen, from Old English bemurnan (“to mourn, bewail, deplore, be sorry for, care for, take heed for”), equivalent to be- (“over, about”) + mourn. Cognate with Old Saxon bimornian (“to bemourn”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|bemornen}} Middle English bemornen, {{inh|en|ang|bemurnan||to mourn, bewail, deplore, be sorry for, care for, take heed for}} Old English bemurnan (“to mourn, bewail, deplore, be sorry for, care for, take heed for”), {{prefix|en|be|mourn|t1=over, about}} be- (“over, about”) + mourn, {{cog|osx|bimornian||to bemourn}} Old Saxon bimornian (“to bemourn”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} bemourn (third-person singular simple present bemourns, present participle bemourning, simple past and past participle bemourned)
  1. (transitive, rare) To weep or mourn over. Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-bemourn-en-verb-p3-ynrH7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with be-

Inflected forms

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