bede

Meanings

Noun

• Prayer, request, supplication
• Rosary.
• A kind of pickaxe.

Verb

• pray, offer, proffer
• request, demand, order, command, forbid
• proclaim, declare
• present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort

Origin

• From Middle English bēde ("prayer, request, supplication, order, command, rosary, bead"), from Old English gebed ("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 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. The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek πευθεσθαι, Sanskrit बोधयित, Old Church Slavonic бъдѣти (Russian будить), Lithuanian budeti. See also bid.
• Unknown?