beheawan

== Old English == === Etymology === From be- +‎ hēawan. Cognate with Old Saxon bihauwan, Old High German bihauwan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /beˈxæ͜ɑː.wɑn/, [beˈhæ͜ɑː.wɑn] === Verb === behēawan to beat, bruise to hew or cut off, separate from; sunder from, deprive or bereave of ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: bihewen, behewen English: behew === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “beheáwan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.