Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Prayer, later especially with a rosary. · Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. · A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes. · Various small, round solid objects.
To form into a bead. · To apply beads to. · To cause beads to form on (something).
From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ġebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bedu, *bed, *gabed, from Proto-Germanic *bedō, *bedą. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gebäd (“prayer”), Cimbrian gapéet (“prayer”), Dutch gebed and bede (“prayer”), German Gebet (“prayer”), Low German Gebett (“prayer”), Luxembourgish Gebiet (“prayer”), Vilamovian gybāt (“prayer”).
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- Root classification mention*gʷʰedʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionbedeenm
- Derivation mentionbeduang
- Derivation mention*bedugmw-pro
- Derivation mention*bedōgem-pro
- Cognate mentionGebädstq · prayer
- Cognate mentiongapéetcim · prayer
- Cognate mentiongebednl
- Cognate mentionGebetde · prayer
- Cognate mentionGebettnds · prayer
- Cognate mentionGebietlb · prayer
- Cognate mentiongybātwym · prayer
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