weardian

Meaning

1. to guard, protect

2. to occupy, keep, hold, possess

   Frȳnd sind on eorþan, lēofe lifġende, leġer weardiað, þonne iċ on ūhtan āna gonge under āctrēo ġeond þās eorðsċrafu.

   Friends are in earth, dear living, who hold bed then I go alone on the dawn under the oak tree over this earthen-cave.

   10th century, The Wife's Lament:

Conjugation