Awestend

Equivalent to āwēstan +‎ -end, more at wēstan.

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈweːs.tend/

Awestend m

1. a destroyer, devastator, ravager
2. the angel Abaddon or Apollyon
   1. • c. 1010-16, Wulfstan's Homilies

        Þone āwyrgedan engel þone men Āwēstend hātað.

        The accursed angel whom men call Waster.

• āwēstan (“to lay waste, destroy, devastate, ravage”)
• wēsten (“wasteland, desert, wilderness”)
• wēste (“waste, uncultivated, desert, empty”)

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