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"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *wesan, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-.\nThe simple present forms originate from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”), which had no infinitive or past tense in Proto-Germanic, but had already formed a single paradigm with *wesaną supplying the infinitive and past tense.",
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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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]
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"pos": "verb",
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"english": "to be present",
"word": "ætwesan"
},
{
"english": "to be before",
"word": "forewesan"
},
{
"english": "to be together",
"word": "ġewesan"
},
{
"english": "being",
"word": "wist"
}
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"examples": [
{
"english": "Then he said, \"Do you know what a person is?\" So I said, \"I know it's a soul and a body.\"",
"text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of The Consolation of Philosophy\nÞā cwæþ hē, \"Wāst þū hwæt mann sīe?\" Þā cwæþ iċ, \"Iċ wāt þæt hit biþ sāwol and līchama.\"",
"type": "quotation"
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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",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "We agreed, being striplings, and promised, (we were both yet in youthful life,) that we on the ocean out our lives would venture, and that we thus accomplish'd.",
"roman": "Wit þæt ġecwǣdon, cniht wesende, and ġebēotedon, wǣron beġen þā ġit on ġeogoðfeore, þæt wit on gārsecg ūt aldrum nēðdon, and þæt ġeæfndon swā.",
"text": "10-11th c., Beowulf, lines 1074-1081",
"type": "quotation"
}
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},
{
"ipa": "[ˈwe.zɑn]"
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"word": "wosa"
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{
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"word": "wossa"
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"t": "to tend flocks, pasture",
"unc": "1"
},
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],
"text": ">? Middle English: wesen (“to tend flocks, pasture”)"
}
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
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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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"present"
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{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wēsed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past"
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},
{
"form": "ġewēsed",
"source": "conjugation",
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"past"
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"lang": "Old English",
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"to soak; to macerate; to dye"
],
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{
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{
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"Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"Old English irregular verbs",
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"Old English suppletive verbs",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"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 terms with redundant head parameter",
"Old English verb forms",
"Old English verbs"
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"english": "to be present",
"word": "ætwesan"
},
{
"english": "to be before",
"word": "forewesan"
},
{
"english": "to be together",
"word": "ġewesan"
},
{
"english": "being",
"word": "wist"
}
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"infinitive"
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},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "eom",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wæs",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "eart",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wǣre",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wæs",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
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"text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of The Consolation of Philosophy\nÞā cwæþ hē, \"Wāst þū hwæt mann sīe?\" Þā cwæþ iċ, \"Iċ wāt þæt hit biþ sāwol and līchama.\"",
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