bewarian

== Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *biwarōn, equivalent to be- +‎ warian. Cognate with Old Frisian biwaria, Old High German biwarōn. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /beˈwɑ.ri.ɑn/ === Verb === bewarian to keep, guard, preserve, protect to guard one's self against to ward off from ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: bewar (influenced by periphrastic constructions) English: beware (partially) Scots: bewar, beware (partially) === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “bewarian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.