þweorh

• þwēor
• þwerh, þwēr — Anglian
• þwȳr — West Saxon
• þwīr — Late West Saxon

From Proto-West Germanic *þwerh (“against, contrary”). Akin to Old English þwēorian (“to oppose, thwart”). Cognate with Old Saxon thwerh, Old Norse þverr, Dutch dwars.

• IPA^(key): /θwe͜orx/, [θwe͜orˠx]

þweorh

1. cross, transverse

   þweorhfuru ― a cross-furrow

2. adverse, opposed
3. crooked, bent
4. angry
5. perverse, depraved

   þwēortīeme ― contentious, perverse, wicked

   þwēorscipe ― perversity, depravity, iniquity

• Middle English: thwīre, thwyre

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “þweorh”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.