wæd

wæd, n.n: ford, shallow water, water that may be traversed; (poetic) a body of water, sea. (WAED / ˈwæd)

water
A boy, having been pushed off London Bridge by cattle, is rescued by rivermen on the Thames. John Lydgate’s Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund. England (Bury St Edmunds?), between 1461 and c. 1475. British Library, MS Yates Thompson 47, f. 94v. [bl.uk]

be-sencan

be-sencan, wk.v: to sink, plunge, submerge, drown. (beh-SEN-kahn / bɛ-ˈsɛn-kan)

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Constantine and Methodius receiving the remains of Pope Clement I by the Black Sea. From The Menologion of Basil II (late 10th- or early 11th-century). Città del Vaticano, BAV, cod. Vat. gr. 1613, p. 204. [commons.wikimedia.org]