abarian

Old English

Verb

abarian

1. to expose, discover, make bare
   • 1922, S.J. Crawford, The Old English Version of the Heptateuch Aelfrics Treatise on the Old and New Testament and his Preface to Genesis‎^[1], page 380:

     gyf ðu abarast ure spræce, we ne beoð forsworene

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Conjugation

Conjugation of abarian (weak class 2)

infinitive	abarian	abarienne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	abariġe	abarode
second person singular	abarast	abarodest
third person singular	abaraþ	abarode
plural	abariaþ	abarodon
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	abariġe	abarode
plural	abariġen	abaroden
imperative
singular	abara
plural	abariaþ
participle	present	past
	abariende	(ġe)abarod

Descendants

• Latin: abarno, expose a crime

References

• 1946, Gertrude E Noyes, The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson‎^[2], page 86:

  from the Saxon word Abarian, to make bare, uncover, or disclose.

• 1720, Edward Phillips, The New World of Words Or Universal English Dictionary Containing and Account of the Original Or Proper Sense and Various Significations of All Hard Words Derived from Other Languages‎^[3]:

  Abarnare, an old Latin law-term, signifying to detect or discover any secret crime; derived from the Saxon word abarian, to make bare, uncover, or discover

• 1838, A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language‎^[4] (in English):

  Abarian; pp. ed ; v. a. [bar bare, naked] To make bare, to manifest, detect, discover, disclose; denudare: — þu abarast ure spraece, Jos. 2, 20.