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Yerned vs Werned - What's the difference?

yerned | werned |

As verbs the difference between yerned and werned

is that yerned is past tense of yern while werned is past tense of wern.

yerned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (yern)

    • yern

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
    • (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)