wærcan
Old English
Etymology
By surface analysis, wærc (“bird”) + -an (infinitive suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwær.kɑn/, [ˈwærˠ.kɑn]
Verb
wærcan
- (impersonal) to be in pain
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wærcan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.