bede

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• /biːd/
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• rhymes with -iːd
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• homophone: bead
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• UK: /biːd/
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From Middle English bēde (“prayer, request, supplication, order, command, rosary, bead”), from Old English ġebed (“prayer, petition, supplication, religious service, an ordinance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bed, from Proto-Germanic *bedą (“prayer, entreaty”). Cognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.

From Middle English bēden (“to offer”), from Old English bēodan, from Proto-West Germanic *beudan, from Proto-Germanic *beudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bhewdh-. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian biada, Old Saxon biodan (Low German bieden, 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 πεύθομαι (peúthomai, “ask for”), Sanskrit बोधयति (bodhayati, “wake”), Old Church Slavonic бъдѣти (bŭděti) (Russian будить (buditʹ, “wake”)), Lithuanian budeti (“awake”). See also bid.

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• French: Bède — English monk and scholar
• Hungarian: Béda — English monk and scholar
• Italian: Beda — English monk and scholar
• Latin: Beda — English monk and scholar
• Old English: Bēda — English monk and scholar
• Polish: Beda — English monk and scholar
• Russian: Бе́да (Béda) — English monk and scholar
• Spanish: Beda — English monk and scholar