wiernan

== Old English == === Alternative forms === weornan, wirnan, wyrnan === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *warnijan, from Proto-Germanic *warnijaną, from *warnō (“obstacle”); related to werian (“to protect”). Cognate with Old Frisian werna, Old Norse verna (Danish værne). Compare wearnian. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwi͜yr.nɑn/, [ˈwi͜yrˠ.nɑn] === Verb === wiernan (West Saxon) to refuse, deny to reject, decline to withhold to forbid, prevent ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== forwiernan ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: wernen, warn, warne, werne, worne, wurne, wærnen, wearne, wearnen, weorne (Early Middle English) (through the Anglian form) === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “wirnan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.