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Where does “cweþan” come from?

cweþan (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic *kweþan, from Proto-Germanic kweþaną, from Proto-Indo-European gʷét-.

cweþan (Old English): to say

Definitions

  1. to say

Ancestry of “cweþan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*kweþan—
2Proto-Germanickweþanąto say
3Proto-Indo-Europeangʷét-—

Words derived from “cweþan”

  • bequeath
  • bequeathal
  • bequeathment
  • bequeathable
  • bequeather
  • bequeatheth
  • bequeathest
  • quethe
  • quethen
  • bequethen
  • quethe
  • cwethen
  • becweþan
  • oncweþan
  • gecwide
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