wern

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English weren, equivalent to were +‎ -en.

Verb

wern

  1. (obsolete) plural simple past of be
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 32:
      Her name was Agape whoſe children werne
      All three as one, the firſt hight Priamond,
      The ſecond Dyamond, the youngeſt Triamond.
    • 1843, John Ward, “Chapter XI. Burslem-(Continued.)”, in The Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent in the Commencement of the Reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria […] , London: W. Lewis & Son, A Burslem Dialogue, page 230:
      T. Oi've yerd em sey, yo' wern aw lung-woinded at that teyme; wur it so, Rafy?
    • 1910, “Glasgerion”, in Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse:
      Through the falseness of that lither lad
      These three lives wern all gone.

Anagrams

Middle English

Verb

wern

  1. alternative form of weren
  2. To refuse.
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