weorþan

Meaning

1. to become

   …ac mē eċġa dolg ēacen weorðað þurh dēaðsleġe dagum and nihtum.

   …but to me blade wounds become widened through deathblows by days and nights.

   10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 5:

2. to be (used to form the passive voice)

   Hē ārās þā ġesund, swelċe of slǣpe āwreaht, and begann tō wundrienne hū hē wurde þæder ġebrōht.

   He then arose safe and sound, as if woken from sleep, and began to wonder how he was brought thither.

   c. 992, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"

3. to happen, befall, come to pass

   An. DLXXXV Hēr wearþ on Brytene blōdi rēn ⁊ meolc and butere wurdon ġewend to blōde.

   Year 685 In this year befell bloody rain in Britain, and milk and butter were turned into blood.

   The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Conjugation