A prefix or combining element derived from OE appearing in four verbs and five participles or adjectives. The most common meaning is ‘in opposition, against’ (in the verbs witherholden, witherthreten,……
‘Away, back’; specif. (a) ‘back to someone or a place’ and (b) ‘away from someone or something’: for (a), e.g., the nouns yencome, yenfare, yenrase, the verbs yencomen, yenpassen, and the gerunds……
