werthan

From Proto-Germanic *werþaną.

werthan

1. to become

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• farwerthan

• Middle Dutch: werden
  • Dutch: worden
    • Afrikaans: word
  • Limburgish: waere

• “werthan”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *werþaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwer.θan/

werthan

1. to become, come to
   • Thō uuarð thar an thene gastseli megincraft mikil manno gesamnod

     Then the great power came there in the guest hall, gathered by the men

     (Heliand, verses 2733 and 2734)
2. to be (used with the subject to express the passive)
   • that he scoldi an Bethleem giboran werðan: 'so is an usan bokun giscriƀan'

     that he should be born in Bethleem: 'so it is written in our books'

     (Heliand, verse 621)

• Middle Low German: warden
  • Low German: warrn

    German Low German: werden, worden