gesparrian

== Old English == === Etymology === ge- +‎ sparrian, from Proto-West Germanic *sparrijan, from Proto-Germanic *sparrijaną (“to block”). Related to *sparrô (“beam, log”). === Verb === ġesparrian to shut The Gospel of St. Matthew, in Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian versions, edited by Kemble ==== Conjugation ==== === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ge-sparrian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 990-991