Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorysecond-person singular simple past indicative of be · plural simple past indicative of be · simple subjunctive of be · first/third-person singular simple past indicative of be.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-der. Proto-Germanic *wēzīn Proto-West Germanic *wāʀīn Old English wǣre Old English wǣron Old English wǣren Middle English were English were Inherited from Middle English were, weren, from Old English wǣre, wǣron, wǣren, from Proto-West Germanic *wāʀun, *wāʀīn, from Proto-Germanic *wēzun, *wēzīn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-. More at was.
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