bede

See also: bédé, bêdê, bědě, and będę

English

Alternative forms

• bead

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /biːd/

Etymology 1

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 *bedą (“prayer, entreaty”). Cognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.

Noun

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 2

From Middle English bēden (“to pray, offer, proffer, request, demand, order, command, forbid; proclaim, declare; present, counsel, advise, exhort”), from Old English bēodan (“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 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (anabiudan). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek πευθεσθαι (peuthesthai, “ask for”), Sanskrit बोधयित (bodhayita, “wake”), Old Church Slavonic бъдѣти (bŭděti) (Russian будить (buditʹ, “wake”)), Lithuanian budeti (“awake”). See also bid.

Verb

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 by Le Mort Arthur and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     A turnement were best to bede.

4. present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
   • 1450, Merlin:

     They of londone […] boden hem to ben lyht of herte.

Derived terms

• misbede

Etymology 3

Unknown?

Noun

bede (plural bedes)

1. (mining) A kind of pickaxe.

References

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.
(See the entry for bede in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1911
• Middle English Dictionary

Anagrams

• Beed, Deeb, beed

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Danish

Etymology 1

• Via Middle Low German bēye from Latin bēta (“beet”). Compara also German Bete and English beet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥eːðə], [ˈb̥eːð̩]

Noun

bede c (singular definite beden, plural indefinite beder)

1. beet (the root plant Beta vulgaris)

Inflection

Declension of bede

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bede	beden	beder	bederne
genitive	bedes	bedens	beders	bedernes

Etymology 2

From Old Norse biðja, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”). Cognate with Swedish be, bedja, English bid, Dutch bidden, and German bitten. The Germanic verb probably goes back to Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-, cf. Polish żądać (“to demand”) and Ancient Greek θέσσασθαι (théssasthai, “to pray”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥eˀ] or (formal) IPA^(key): [ˈb̥eːðə], [ˈb̥eːð̩]

Alternative forms

• be'

Verb

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

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

Etymology 3

From Old Norse beita (“to let graze, rest”), from Proto-Germanic *baitijaną. Causative of *bītaną (“to bite”) {{cf. Danish bide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥eðə]

Verb

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

1. (dated) to make a halt, take a rest

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥eːðə], [ˈb̥eːð̩]

Noun

bede n pl

1. indefinite plural of bed

Etymology 5

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥eːðə], [ˈb̥eːð̩]

Noun

bede c (singular definite beden, plural indefinite beder)

1. a wether (a castrated ram)

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bede, from Old Dutch beda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeː.də/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: be‧de
• Rhymes: -eːdə

Noun

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

1. plea
2. (archaic) a prayer

Derived terms

• bededag
• bedehuis
• bedevaart
• smeekbede
• voorbede

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Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch beda, from Proto-Germanic *bedō.

Noun

bēde f

1. prayer
2. plea, request

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: bede

Etymology 2

Determiner

bêde

1. (Flemish) Alternative form of beide

Inflection

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “bede”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “bede (II)”, in Middelniederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse biðja, compare with Danish bede

Verb

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

Synonyms

• be

References

• “bede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• be
• beda

Etymology

From Old Norse biðja

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²beːə/

Verb

bede (present tense bed, past tense bad, past participle bede or bedd or bedt, present participle bedande, imperative bed)

1. to ask; request
2. to pray

Synonyms

• be

References

• “bede” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old High German

Alternative forms

• beide

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeː.de/

Adjective

bēde

1. both

Descendants

• Middle High German: beide, bēde
  • German: beide
  • Yiddish: ביידע‎ (beyde)

References

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

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Old Irish

Verb

bede

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of is

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Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German beten. Related to English bead.

Verb

bede

1. to pray