See cweþan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"source": "conjugation",
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},
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"form": "cwǣdon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
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]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"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"
},
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"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",
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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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"ipa": "/ˈkwe.θɑn/"
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"ipa": "[ˈkwe.ðɑn]"
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"word": "cweðan"
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"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"word": "æftercweþan"
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"word": "becweþan"
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"word": "cwist þū la"
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"word": "weargcweþan"
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"word": "yfelcweþan"
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"name": "desctree"
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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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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
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},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"form": "cwǣde",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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"tags": [
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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},
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"form": "cweþaþ",
"source": "conjugation",
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"present"
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"form": "cwǣdon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
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]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
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},
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"plural",
"present"
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},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural"
]
},
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"form": "cweþ",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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"past",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural",
"present"
]
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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"present"
]
},
{
"form": "cweden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past"
]
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"form": "ġecweden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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"past"
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"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",
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"type": "quotation"
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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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"ipa": "/ˈkwe.θɑn/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈkwe.ðɑn]"
}
],
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"english": "edh spelling",
"word": "cweðan"
},
{
"word": "cwoða — Northumbrian"
}
],
"word": "cweþan"
}
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