abarian

Old English

Verb

abarian

  1. to abare, make bare, strip
  2. to expose, discover

Conjugation

Conjugation of abarian (weak, class 2)
infinitive abarian abarienne
indicative mood present tense past tense
first person singular abariġe abarode
second person singular abarast abarodest
third person singular abaraþ abarode
plural abariaþ abarodon
subjunctive present tense past tense
singular abariġe abarode
plural abariġen abaroden
imperative
singular abara
plural abariaþ
participle present past
abariende (ġe)abarod

Alternative forms

  • aborian

Descendants

  • Latin: abarno (expose a crime)
  • English: abare (to make bare, to strip)

References

  • Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “á-barian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Johnson, Mary Lynch (1927), “abarian”, in A modern English - Old English Dictionary (Thesis), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
  • 1946, Gertrude E Noyes, The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson‎[1] (in English), page 86:
    from the Saxon word Abarian, to make bare, uncover, or disclose.
  • 1720, Edward Phillips, The New World of Words Or Universal English Dictionary Containing and Account of the Original Or Proper Sense and Various Significations of All Hard Words Derived from Other Languages‎[2] (in English):
    Abarnare, an old Latin law-term, signifying to detect or discover any secret crime; derived from the Saxon word abarian, to make bare, uncover, or discover
  • 1838, A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language‎[3] (quotation in English; overall work in English):
    Abarian; pp. ed ; v. a. [bar bare, naked] To make bare, to manifest, detect, discover, disclose; denudare: — þu abarast ure spraece, Jos. 2, 20.
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