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From Proto-West Germanic *twihōn. Equivalent to twēo + -ian.
twēoġan
- to doubt (+ genitive) (often impersonal, with accusative subject)
Iċ ġehāte þæt mē nǣfre mā þīn ne twēoþ.
- I promise I won't ever doubt you again.
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
Ne twēoþ þæs nānne mann þe āwiht wāt.
- No one who knows anything doubts that.
- A following clause expressing what is doubted goes in the subjunctive mood: Hīe twēoþ hwæðer hit man mæġe dōn (“She doubts whether it can be done”).
- Middle English: tweoȝean