adverb · rare

athwart

athwart · more athwart · most athwart

поперёк

quer

From side to side, often in an oblique mannerFrom side to side, often in an oblique manner; across or over.

UK/əˈθwɔːt/US/əˈθwɔɹt/

» Through the open door shone the hearth fire, sending out its warm red glow athwart the chilly autumn night.

Durch die offene Tür schien das Herdfeuer, seine warme, rote Glut quer gegen die kühle Herbstnacht heraussendend.

Meaning

3 senses

From side to side, often in an oblique manner; across or over.
Above, the stars appeared to move slowly athwart.
We placed one log on the ground, and another athwart, forming a crude cross.
quer
поперёкpoperjók
at an oblique angle
Across the path of something, so as to impede progress.
a fleet standing athwart our course
(figuratively)Against the anticipated or appropriate course of something; improperly, perversely, wrongly.

Examples

1 sentences

Through the open door shone the hearth fire, sending out its warm red glow athwart the chilly autumn night.
deDurch die offene Tür schien das Herdfeuer, seine warme, rote Glut quer gegen die kühle Herbstnacht heraussendend. — Yorwba
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Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across:

Origin

From Late Middle English athwert, athirt, from a- (prefix meaning ‘in the direction of, to

From Late Middle English athwert, athirt, from a- (prefix meaning ‘in the direction of, toward’) + thwert (“crosswise; (cooking) across the grain”, adverb). Thwert is derived from thwert (“crosswise, transverse; counter, opposing; contrary, obstinate, stubborn”, adjective), borrowed from Old Norse þvert (“across, athwart”), originally the neuter form of þverr (“across, transverse”), from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz (“cross; adverse”) (altered or influenced by Proto-Germanic *þweraną (“to stir; to swirl; to turn”)), from Proto-Germanic *þerh-, probably from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”). The English word is analysable as a- (prefix meaning ‘in the direction of, toward’) + thwart (“placed or situated across something else”).

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