English

afeard

From afear + -ed.

A compound of afear + -ed

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘to try, dare, risk’

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Old English fǣr ‘sudden danger, calamity, ambush’

Old English fǣran ‘to frighten’

Old English āfǣran ‘to terrify, dismay’

Middle English aferen ‘to frighten, terrify’

English afear

Today it means

adj Afraid.

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