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Gerned vs Werned - What's the difference?

gerned | werned |

As verbs the difference between gerned and werned

is that gerned is past tense of gern while werned is past tense of wern.

gerned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (gern)

    • gern

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To grin.
  • (obsolete) To yawn.
  • * Spenser
    • [He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern .
    (Webster 1913) ----

    werned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wern)

    • wern

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To refuse.
    • He is too great a niggard that will wern / A man to light a candle at his lantern. — Chaucer.
    (Webster 1913)