FromMiddle Englishbēde(“prayer, request, supplication, order, command, rosary, bead”), fromOld Englishġebed(“prayer, petition, supplication, religious service, an ordinance”), fromProto-West Germanic*bed, fromProto-Germanic*bedą(“prayer, entreaty”). Cognate withDutchgebed andbede,GermanGebet.
bede (pluralbedes)
FromMiddle Englishbēden(“to offer”), fromOld Englishbēodan, fromProto-West Germanic*beudan, fromProto-Germanic*beudaną, fromProto-Indo-European*bʰewdʰ-.
Germanic cognates includeOld Frisianbiada,Old Saxonbiodan (Low Germanbieden,beden),Dutchbieden,Old High Germanbiotan (Germanbieten),Old Norsebjóða (Swedishbjuda(“command, show”)),Gothic𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽(anabiudan). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greekπεύθομαι(peúthomai,“ask for”), Sanskritबोधयति(bodhayati,“wake”), Old Church Slavonicбъдѣти(bŭděti) (Russianбудить(buditʹ,“wake”)), Lithuanianbudeti(“awake”). See alsobid.
bede (third-person singular simple presentbedes,present participlebeding,simple pastbade,past participlebodeorboden)(Can weverify(+) this sense?)
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bede (pluralbedes)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for“bede”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
ViaMiddle Low Germanbēye fromLatinbēta(“beet”). Compare alsoGermanBete andEnglishbeet.
bede c (singular definitebeden,plural indefinitebeder)
| common gender | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | bede | beden | beder | bederne |
| genitive | bedes | bedens | beders | bedernes |
Either the Danish noun derives from a now-archaic verbbede(“to castrate, geld, wether”), which derives from Middle Low Germanböten, or the noun derives from a Middle Low German nounbete.
bede c (singular definitebeden,plural indefinitebeder)
| common gender | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | bede | beden | beder | bederne |
| genitive | bedes | bedens | beders | bedernes |
FromOld Norsebiðja, fromProto-Germanic*bidjaną(“to ask”). Cognate withSwedishbe,bedja,Englishbid,Dutchbidden, andGermanbitten. The Germanic verb probably goes back toProto-Indo-European*gʷʰedʰ-, cf.Polishżądać(“to demand”) andAncient Greekθέσσασθαι(théssasthai,“to pray”).
bede (past tensebad,past participlebedt)
FromOld Norsebeita(“to let graze, rest”), fromProto-Germanic*baitijaną, cognate withNorwegianbeite (Englishbait is borrowed from Old Norse). A causative of the verb*bītaną(“to bite”) (cf.Danishbide).
bede (past tensebedede,past participlebedet)
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
FromMiddle Dutchbede, fromOld Dutchbeda. See the verbbidden.
bede f (pluralbedenorbedes,diminutivebedetje n)
FromOld Dutchbeda, fromProto-Germanic*bedō.
bēde f
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bēde | bēden |
| accusative | bēde | bēden |
| genitive | bēde,bēden | bēden |
| dative | bēde,bēden | bēden |
bêde
This determiner needs aninflection-table template.
FromOld Englishġebedu, plural ofġebed(“prayer”), fromProto-West Germanic*gabed; reinforced byOld Englishbedu(“request”).
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bede (imperativebed,present tensebeder,passivebedes,simple pastbad,past participlebedt,present participlebedende)
bede (present tensebed,past tensebad,past participlebedeorbeddorbedt,present participlebedande,imperativebed)
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bede
FromProto-Germanic*bai, whence alsoOld Norsebáðir.
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CompareGermanbeten. Related to Englishbead.
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bede (Cyrillic spellingбеде)