tobrecan

== Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *tebrekaną, *twizbrekaną (“to break apart”), equivalent to tō- +‎ brecan. Cognate with Old Frisian tōbreka, Old Dutch tebrekan, Old Saxon tebrekan, Old High German zibrehhan (German zerbrechen). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /toːˈbre.kɑn/ === Verb === tōbrecan to break asunder or into pieces, break apart, break in two, overthrow, ruin, crush, destroy to infringe, violate to interrupt; inbreak ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: tobreken English: tobreak === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “tóbrecan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.