ætiewan

Old English

Alternative forms

• atēowan, ætȳwan, ætīwan, ætēowan

Etymology

From æt- +‎ īewan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ætˈi͜yː.wɑn/

Verb

ætīewan

1. (intransitive) to appear
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCLXXVIII Hēr atēowede comēta se steorra on Auguste ⁊ sċān III monðas ælċe morgen swilċe sunne bēam.

     Year 678 In this year a comet star appeared in August and shone like a sunbeam each morning for three months.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Æfter þisum ġebede, bærst ūt of heofonum swȳþe fǣrlīċ fȳr and forbernde þæt templ, and ealle þā godas grundlunga suncon intō þǣre eorþan, and ne ætēowdon siþþan.

     After this prayer, a very sudden fire burst out of the heavens and burned up the temple, and all the gods sunk completely into the earth, and have not appeared since.

   Iċ āwrīte þā ġeþōhtas þe on mīnum mōde ætīewaþ.

   I'm writing down the thoughts that appear in my mind.

2. (transitive) to show, reveal

Usage notes

• In some texts, the un-i-mutated spelling ætēowan seems to have been preferred for the intransitive sense of the verb, while i-mutated forms such as ætīewan, ætȳwan, and ætīwan are more commonly attested for the transitive sense. This may have arisen via analogy with verb pairs such as bærnan/biernan and ēacan/īeċan. However, not all authors made this distinction, and both senses are attested with and without i-mutation.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ætīewan (weak class 1)

infinitive	ætīewan	ætīewenne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	ætīewe	ætīewde
second person singular	ætīewest, ætīewst	ætīewdest
third person singular	ætīeweþ, ætīewþ	ætīewde
plural	ætīewaþ	ætīewdon
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	ætīewe	ætīewde
plural	ætīewen	ætīewden
imperative
singular	ætīew
plural	ætīewaþ
participle	present	past
	ætīewende	ætīewed

Derived terms

• ætīewednes
• ætīewung