wesan

Etymology
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to be

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

The simple present forms originate from, which had no infinitive or past tense in Proto-Germanic, but had already formed a single paradigm with supplying the infinitive and past tense.

Verb

 * 1) to be, exist
 * 2) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of 
 * "ang"

- Þā cwæþ hē, "Wāst þū hwæt mann sīe?" Þā cwæþ iċ, "Iċ wāt þæt hit biþ sāwol and līchama."


 * 1) * c. 990, , John 9:12
 * "ang"

- Þā cwǣdon hīe tō him, "Hwǣr is hē?" Þā cwæþ hē, "Iċ nāt."

Usage notes

 * The verbs and  both mean to be, but in different circumstances. For most purposes,  is used;  is used for what is known as the "gnomic present" and the future tense of to be.
 * The gnomic present, in short, refers to anything which is a general truth, like Winter biþ ċealdost ("Winter is coldest"), or Fēower sīðum seofon bēoþ eahta and twēntiġ ("Four times seven is (lit. " are ") twenty-eight"). Generally, statements about the self will not be gnomic. For example, although it may seem that a statement like I am a person is always true, such a statement is nonetheless rendered with : Iċ eom mann.
 * To be is the only verb in Old English for which the future tense may be indicated with morphology instead of adverbs or context clues, and for this purpose, is used. So, I am the king is rendered as Iċ eom sē cyning, but I will be the king is rendered as Iċ bēo sē cyning. Note that  is not used for any other verb's future tense; both I see it and I will see it are written as Iċ hit ġesēo .
 * Both and  share past tense forms.
 * Both and  are copulative verbs, which means they are not transitive and do not take a direct object. Because of this, predicate nouns and adjectives will be in the nominative case. For example: Hēo is iċ ("She is I"), not *Hēo is mē ("She is me").
 * In the Anglian dialects, the present plural indicative form occurred alongside the / forms. This may have been due to influence or loaning from the Old Norse cognate /, or it may be an earlier native form that was lost entirely in the southern dialects.
 * A regularised form wesaþ is also rarely attested for the present plural indicative, perhaps representing a hypercorrection due to influence from the infinitive and/or the imperative plural form (the latter being identical to the present plural indicative for most other Old English verbs).

Etymology 2
From, from , derived from. The only (possible) attestation is in the form in line 3115 of Beowulf, argued to be a misspelling of.

Verb

 * 1) to consume or feast

Usage notes

 * The precise verb class is unknown. It is shown here according to what would be its etymologically inherited form, a class 5 strong verb.

Etymology 3
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to soak; to macerate; to dye
 * 2) to ooze

Etymology
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to be, exist

Derived terms

 * giwesan

Descendants

 * : [z̥ai̯]
 * Erzgebirgisch: [saɪ]
 * Frankfurterisch: [sɑ̃ɪ]
 * : [z̥ai̯]
 * Erzgebirgisch: [saɪ]
 * Frankfurterisch: [sɑ̃ɪ]
 * : [z̥ai̯]
 * Erzgebirgisch: [saɪ]
 * Frankfurterisch: [sɑ̃ɪ]
 * Erzgebirgisch: [saɪ]
 * Frankfurterisch: [sɑ̃ɪ]
 * Erzgebirgisch: [saɪ]
 * Frankfurterisch: [sɑ̃ɪ]
 * Frankfurterisch: [sɑ̃ɪ]
 * Frankfurterisch: [sɑ̃ɪ]
 * Frankfurterisch: [sɑ̃ɪ]
 * Frankfurterisch: [sɑ̃ɪ]
 * Frankfurterisch: [sɑ̃ɪ]

Etymology
From, from , from. The forms in b- derive from, from.

Verb

 * 1) to be

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) sand