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bede

See also: bédé, bêdê, bědě, and będę

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English bēde ‎(“prayer, request, supplication, order, command, rosary, bead”), from Old English gebed ‎(“prayer, petition, supplication, religious service, an ordinance”), from Proto-Germanic. Cognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.

NounEdit

bede ‎(plural bedes or beden)

  1. prayer, request, supplication
    • 1875 March, in Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15 Number 87:
      Thus originated the alms-(or bede-) houses so frequently met with in the retired villages of England.
    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night:
      By Allah thy bede is good indeed and right is thy rede!
    • 2008, Time to Ditch St. George:
      […] because miracles had frequently been done at his burial-place, even at the bede-house where he was buried.
    • 2011, Where Did Beaded Flowers Come From?:
      Because of the length of the original rosary, it became customary to pay someone, usually a resident of an almshouse, to recite the prayers. These people were referred to as bede women or men, and it was they who made the first bead flowers.
  2. order, command
  3. rosary

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English bēden ‎(“to pray, offer, proffer, request, demand, order, command, forbid; proclaim, declare; present, counsel, advise, exhort”), from Old English bēodian ‎(“to command, decree, summon, banish, declare, inform, announce, proclaim; threaten, offer, proffer, give, grant, surrender”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ-. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian biada, Old Saxon biodan (Low German beden), Dutch bieden, Old High German biotan (German bieten), Old Norse bjóða (Swedish bjuda ‎(“command, show”)), Gothic *𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 ‎(biudan) (attested in compounds). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek πευθεσθαι ‎(peuthesthai, “ask for”), Sanskrit बोधयित ‎(bodhayita, “wake”), Old Church Slavonic бъдети ‎(bŭdeti) (Russian будить ‎(budit’, “wake”)), Lithuanian budeti ‎(“awake”). See also bid.

VerbEdit

bede ‎(third-person singular simple present bedes, present participle beding, simple past bade, past participle bode or boden)

  1. pray, offer, proffer
    • 1500, The Towneley Plays:
      Sir, a bargan bede I you.
  2. request, demand, order, command, forbid
  3. proclaim, declare
    • (Can we date this quote?) Le Mort Arthur:
      A turnement were best to bede.
  4. present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
    • 1450, Merlin:
      They of londone […] boden hem to ben lyht of herte.

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

bede ‎(plural bedes)

  1. (mining) A kind of pickaxe.
ReferencesEdit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’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.

  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1911
  • Middle English Dictionary

DanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /beːdə/, [ˈb̥eːðə] or (in case of: entreat, pray, request): IPA(key): /beː/, [ˈb̥eːˀ]

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

bede c (singular definite beden, plural indefinite beder)

  1. beet (the root plant Beta vulgaris)
InflectionEdit
Inflection of bede
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bede beden beder bederne
genitive bedes bedens beders bedernes

Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse biðja, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną ‎(“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Cognate with Swedish be, bedja, Icelandic biðja, English bid, West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden, German bitten.

Alternative formsEdit

VerbEdit

bede ‎(imperative bed, infinitive at bede, present tense beder, past tense bad, perfect tense er/har bedt)

  1. ask, request
  2. beg, entreat, implore
  3. pray

Etymology 3Edit

From Old Norse beita ‎(“to let graze, rest”). Compare English bait.

VerbEdit

bede ‎(imperative bed, infinitive at bede, present tense beder, past tense bedede, perfect tense har bedet)

  1. make a halt, take a rest

Etymology 4Edit

See bed ‎(“bed, garden plot”).

NounEdit

bede n

  1. plural indefinite of bed

Etymology 5Edit

Ultimately from Middle Low German. Either the Danish noun derives from a now-archaic verb bede ‎(“to castrate, geld, wether”), which derives from Middle Low German böten, or the noun derives from a Middle Low German noun bete.

NounEdit

bede c (singular definite beden, plural indefinite beder)

  1. a wether (a castrated ram)

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

EtymologyEdit

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NounEdit

bede f ‎(plural beden or bedes, diminutive bedetje n)

  1. plea
  2. (archaic) a prayer

Derived termsEdit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse biðja, compare with Danish bede

VerbEdit

bede ‎(imperative bed, present tense beder, passive bedes, simple past bad, past participle bedt, present participle bedende)

  1. (archaic) to ask; request
  2. to pray

SynonymsEdit

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse biðja

Alternative formsEdit

VerbEdit

bede

  1. (archaic) to ask; request
  2. to pray

SynonymsEdit

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Old High GermanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *bai-, whence also Old Norse báðir.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

bēde

  1. both

DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Joseph Wright, An Old High-German Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary, Oxford, 1888, p. 143.

Old IrishEdit

VerbEdit

bede

  1. second-person plural present subjunctive of is
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Last edited on 12 September 2016, at 03:48