英和和英

語源

Equivalent to tō- +‎ weorpan.

発音

• IPA: /toːˈwe͜or.pɑn/, [toːˈwe͜orˠ.pɑn]

動詞

tōweorpan

1. to throw in different directions, scatter, disperse
2. (literal or figurative) to overturn, destroy, demolish
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Æfter þǣm Rōmeburg ġetimbred wæs V hunde wintrum ⁊ XXXIII, Hannibal, Pena cyning, besǣt Saguntum Ispania burg...⁊ þǣr wæs sittende eahta mōnaþ, oþ hē hīe ealle hungre ācwealde, ⁊ þā burg tōwearp....

     533 years after Rome was built, Hannibal, king of the Carthaginians, laid siege to Saguntum, a city in Hispania...and he sat there for eight months, until he killed them all with hunger, and destroyed the city...

Conjugation

参照

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “TŌWEORPAN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “TŌWEORPAN supplemental input”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.