bide
/baɪd/ · verb
Meaning
- To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
- To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
- To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
- To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
- To wait for; to await.
- A surname.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan (“to stay, continue, live, remain, delay; wait for, await, expect; endure, experience, find; attain, obtain; own”), from Proto-West Germanic *bīdan (“to wait”), from Proto-Germanic *bīdaną (“to wait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydʰeti, from *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, persuade, compel, trust”). Latinate cognates (via PIE) include faith and fidelity. Cognates Cognate with Scots bide (“to dwell, to live; to stay”), Alemannic German beite (“to wait”), Cimbrian paiten (“to wait”), Dutch beiden (“to wait”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål bie (“to stay, to wait”), Faroese and Icelandic bíða (“to wait”), Norwegian Nynorsk bide, bie (“to wait”), Swedish bida (“to await, to bide”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (beidan, “to wait”).
- 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽(Gothic)→
- bida(Swedish)→
- bide(Norwegian Nynorsk)→
- bíða(fo,is)→
- bie(da,nb)→
- beiden(Dutch)→
- paiten(Cimbrian)→
- beite(Alemannic German)→
- bide(Scots)→
- *bʰéydʰeti(ine-pro)→
- *bīdaną(gem-pro)→
- *bīdan(gmw-pro)→
- bīdan(ang)→
- biden(Middle English)→
- *bʰeydʰ-(ine-pro)→
- bide (English)
- Relations: root, inh, inh, inh, inh, inh, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- beite(Alemannic German) (cog)
- πείθω(Ancient Greek) (cog)
- paiten(Cimbrian) (cog)
- bie(Danish) (cog)
- biden(Middle Dutch) (cog)
- беда(Russian) (cog)
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