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Etymology · Proto-Germanic

*wesaną

3 English words descend from Proto-Germanic *wesaną, most common first.

isUsed in phrases with existential there (also here and where) when the semantic subject is plural.
beUsed with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
wizenWizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.