toberstan

== Old English == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Germanic *tebrestaną (“to burst or break apart”), equivalent to tō- +‎ berstan. Cognate with Old Saxon tebrestan, Old High German zibrestan (German zerbersten). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /toːˈber.stɑn/, [toːˈberˠ.stɑn] === Verb === tōberstan to burst asunder (intransitive) break in two or in pieces, be rent asunder Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church to break out ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: tobresten, tobursten === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “tóberstan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.