byde

English edit

Verb edit

byde

Obsolete form of bide.

Anagrams edit

Deby

Danish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Danish biuthæ, from Old Norse bjóða, from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), cognate with English bid and German bieten. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to wake, rise up”), which is also the source of Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “awakened, enlightened”) (hence buddha).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥yːðə]

Verb edit

byde (imperative byd, infinitive at byde, present tense byder, past tense bød, perfect tense har budt)

to order, command, bid
to ask, invite
to offer
to bid (to make an offer)

Conjugation edit

Inflection of byde

	present	past
simple	byder	bød
perfect	har budt	havde budt
passive	bydes	—
participle	bydende	budt
imperative	byd	—
infinitive	byde	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	byden	—

Synonyms edit

(invite): indbyde
(offer): tilbyde

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Alternative forms edit

by

Etymology edit

From Old Norse bjóða, from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to wake, rise up”).

Verb edit

byde

to order; command

References edit

“byde” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Verb edit

byde (present tense byd or byder, past tense baud or bydde, past participle bode or bydd or bydt, present participle bydande, imperative byd)

Alternative form of by