þeowian

• IPA^(key): /ˈθe͜oː.wi.ɑn/

From Proto-Germanic *þewāną (“to enslave”). Cognate with Old Norse þjá (“to enslave”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌸𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (anaþiwan, “to subjugate, make subservient”).

þēowian

1. to serve (as a servant, slave, or devotee)

   fram ċildhāde Gode þēowian

   to serve God since childhood

2. to enslave, reduce to servants

• In the senses of serving another person, the person being served is placed in the dative case.

  hlāforde þēowian ― to serve a lord (hlāford is declined in its dative form hlāforde)

See þēowan (“to press”).

• þīwian, þȳwian

þēowian

1. Synonym of þēowan (“to press”)

• ġeþēowian

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “þēowian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.