gesparrian

Old English

Etymology

ge- +‎ sparrian, from Proto-West Germanic *sparrijan, from Proto-Germanic *sparrijaną (“to block”). Related to *sparrô (“beam, log”).

Verb

ġesparrian

1. to shut
   • The Gospel of St. Matthew, in Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian versions, edited by Kemble

     Gesparrado dure ðín

     had shut thy door

Conjugation

Conjugation of ġesparrian (weak class 2)

infinitive	ġesparrian	ġesparrienne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	ġesparriġe	ġesparrode
second person singular	ġesparrast	ġesparrodest
third person singular	ġesparraþ	ġesparrode
plural	ġesparriaþ	ġesparrodon
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	ġesparriġe	ġesparrode
plural	ġesparriġen	ġesparroden
imperative
singular	ġesparra
plural	ġesparriaþ
participle	present	past
	ġesparriende	ġesparrod

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ge-sparrian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “990-991”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 990-991