cwiþan

== Old English == === Etymology === Eventually from Proto-Indo-European *gʷey- (“to lament; complain”). Compare Proto-Germanic *kwainōną, whence Old English cwānian. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkwiː.θɑn/, [ˈkwiː.ðɑn] Rhymes: -iː.θɑn === Verb === cwīþan to speak or moan in grief, mourn, lament ==== Conjugation ==== === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “cwīþan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.