bewander

English

Etymology

From be- (“around, about”) +‎ wander. Compare Saterland Frisian bewonderje, Middle Dutch bewanderen, German bewandern.

Verb

bewander (third-person singular simple present bewanders, present participle bewandering, simple past and past participle bewandered)

  1. (intransitive) To wander around or about; roam.
    • 1839, The New sporting magazine:
      Or 'twas wont to be so, Just a few years ago, At the time when Jack used to bewander to know, That a Corporal's Guard Left the Old Barrack [...]
    • 1907, Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman, The Heart of the empire:
      The spring and the winter came unsought into every man's life, not as they come to-day, wayfarers bewandered among the house-tops, feebly whispering of unknown things in far salubrious lands, [...]
    • 1996, Richard F. Burton (Translator), The Arabian Nights:
      [...] and anon the case became grievous to her and she set out to bewander the regions saying, "Haply shall Allah reunite me with my children and my husband!"
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