bede
EnglishEdit
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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
- 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.
- 1875 March, in Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15 Number 87:
- order, command
- 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)
- pray, offer, proffer
- 1500, The Towneley Plays:
- Sir, a bargan bede I you.
- 1500, The Towneley Plays:
- request, demand, order, command, forbid
- proclaim, declare
- (Can we date this quote?) Le Mort Arthur:
- A turnement were best to bede.
- (Can we date this quote?) Le Mort Arthur:
- present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
- 1450, Merlin:
- They of londone […] boden hem to ben lyht of herte.
- 1450, Merlin:
Etymology 3Edit
Unknown?
NounEdit
bede (plural bedes)
- (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.
(See the entry for bede in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1911
- Middle English Dictionary
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
bede c (singular definite beden, plural indefinite beder)
- beet (the root plant Beta vulgaris)
InflectionEdit
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)
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)
Etymology 4Edit
See bed (“bed, garden plot”).
NounEdit
bede n
- 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)
- a wether (a castrated ram)
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
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NounEdit
bede f (plural beden or bedes, diminutive bedetje n)
Derived termsEdit
Middle DutchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Dutch beda, from Proto-Germanic *bedō.
NounEdit
bēde f
InflectionEdit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
DescendantsEdit
- Dutch: bede
Etymology 2Edit
DeterminerEdit
bêde
- (Flemish) Alternative form of beide
InflectionEdit
This determiner needs an inflection-table template.
Further readingEdit
- “bede”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “bede (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
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)
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “bede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
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VerbEdit
bede (present tense bed, past tense bad, past participle bede or bedd or bedt, present participle bedande, imperative bed)
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “bede” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old High GermanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *bai-, whence also Old Norse báðir.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
bēde
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Joseph Wright, An Old High-German Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary, Oxford, 1888, p. 143.