gnawn

English

Verb

gnawn

1. (archaic) past participle of gnaw
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 47:

     ſee the hell of hauing a false woman : my bed ſhall be abus'd, my Coffers ranſack'd, my reputation gnawne at, and I ſhall only receiue this villanous wrong, but ſtand vnder the adoption of abhominable termes […]

Synonyms

• gnawed

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡnau̯n/
• Rhymes: -au̯n

Verb

gnawn

1. inflection of gwneud:
   1. first-person plural future colloquial
   2. first-person singular conditional colloquial

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
gnawn	nawn	ngnawn	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.