deorfan

== Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *derban (“to work, perish”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈde͜or.fɑn/, [ˈde͜orˠ.vɑn] === Verb === deorfan to labor Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church to be in peril, perish ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ġedeorfan deorf ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: derven English: derve === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “DEORFAN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.