derven – Middle English verb conjugation

Infinitive

Participles

Present	dervende
Past	ydorven

Indicative

Subjunctive

Imperative

Verbs conjugated like derven

derven,

Etymology

1. From Old English deorfan (“to exert oneself, labor; be in peril, perish, be wrecked”), from Proto-West Germanic *derban, from Proto-Germanic *derbaną (“to perish, work”). Some senses (transitive) apparently from Old English *dierfan, from Proto-Germanic *darbijaną, causative of the above.
2. Cognate with Dutch bederven, verderven (“to spoil, corrupt, pervert”), Low German verdarven (“to spoil”), German verderben (“to ruin, spoil, corrupt”), Icelandic fordjarfa (“to disgrace”), Lithuanian di̇̀rbti (“to work”). See: Old English 'deorfan', Proto-Germanic '*derbaną', Proto-Germanic '*darbijaną', Dutch 'bederven', Low Saxon 'verdarven', German, old spelling 'verderben', Icelandic 'fordjarfa'.

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