þweorh

== Old English == === Alternative forms === þwēor þwerh, þwēr — Anglian þwȳr — West Saxon þwīr — Late West Saxon === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *þwerh (“against, contrary”). Akin to Old English þwēorian (“to oppose, thwart”). Cognate with Old Saxon thwerh, Old Norse þverr, Dutch dwars. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /θwe͜orx/, [θwe͜orˠx] Rhymes: -eorx === Adjective === þweorh cross, transverse þweorhfuru ― a cross-furrow adverse, opposed crooked, bent angry perverse, depraved þwēortīeme ― contentious, perverse, wicked þwēorscipe ― perversity, depravity, iniquity ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: thwīre, thwyre === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “þweorh”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.