afeared
/əˈfɪəd
/(also afeard)
adjective archaic or dialect
Afraid.The point is he was big and mean and everyone was afeared of him....
- Tonight I return to French class, and am all afeared at the thought I have started forgetting what I know.
- And I am afeared about what sort of photos of me are going to pop up on other people's sites.
Origin
Old English, from āfǣran 'frighten', from ā- (expressing intensity) + fǣran (see fear); used commonly by Shakespeare, but rarely after 1700 in written form.