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bedeEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bedeEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
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.
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institutional lexicon20 CLAIM LINKS
hetzen — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, Herkunft
Dudenredaktion
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗historical dictionary9 CLAIM LINKS
Weib — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, Herkunft
Duden Editors / 2026
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗historical dictionary8 CLAIM LINKS
lieb — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, Herkunft
Dudenredaktion / 2026
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗historical dictionary4 CLAIM LINKS
Liebe — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, Herkunft
Dudenredaktion / 2026
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Old High German historical-form record for liob reported by Duden
liob / lieb / Old High German period
lieb — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, Herkunftreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Duden modern sense inventory
hetzen / hetzen / Modern German lexicographic record
hetzen — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, Herkunftreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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