Etymology

bemourn

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Today it means: To weep or mourn over. Full definition →

Middle English bemornen ← Old English bemurnan
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  1. Old English · inherited frombemurnan“to mourn, bewail, deplore, be sorry for, care for, take heed for”
  2. Middle English · inherited frombemornen
  3. English todaybemourn

From Middle English bemornen, from Old English bemurnan (“to mourn, bewail, deplore, be sorry for, care for, take heed for”), equivalent to be- (“over, about”) + mourn. Cognate with Old Saxon bimornian (“to bemourn”).

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