Wesan

Indo-European Copula - The Resulting Paradigms - Germanic Languages
... vera vera vera vera/vere være vara vara wesan bēon be wesan sein wesan zijn / wezen wisan Present indicative em ert (est) er (es) erum eruð eru er ert er erum eruð eru er ...

Old English Personal Pronouns - Morphology - Verbs - Anomalous Verbs
... verb 'to be' is actually composed of three different stems Conjugation Pronoun sindon bēon wesan Infinitive – sindon bēon wesan Present indicative ic eom bēo wese ... Therefore, wesan is used as the past, imperative, and present participle versions of sindon, and does not have a separate meaning ... forms of bēon contrast with the present forms of sindon/wesan in that bēon tends to be used to refer to eternal or permanent truths, while sindon/wesan ...