Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo bay around or about; embay; hem in; surround.
From be- + bay (“to bend”), from Middle English beien, beȝen, from Old English bīeġan (“to bend, turn, turn back, incline, depress, abase, humiliate, subject, persuade, convert”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- + *baugijaną.
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