bebay
English
verb
Definitions
- (rare) To bay around or about; embay; hem in; surround.
Etymology
Prefix from English bay (bend, bay leaf, bay laurel, bathe) inherited from Middle English beien inherited from Old English bīeġan (depress, humiliate, turn back, subject, turn, incline, convert, persuade, bend, abase) inherited from Proto-Germanic *bi- (be-, by, at, by-).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*bi-
Gloss
be-, by, at, by-
Concept
Semantic Field
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Ontological Category
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Baystater English
- Guantanamo Bay English
- Pelly Bay English
- afterbay English
- bay English
- bay tree English
- bay window English
- bayard English
- bayberry English
- bayfront English
- bayhead English
- baylike English
- bayman English
- bayplan English
- bayside English
- embay English
- forebay English
- imbay English
- midbay English
- multibay English
- sickbay English
- subbay English
- transbay English
- unbay English
- *glemb- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁epi Proto-Indo-European
- *puH- Proto-Indo-European
- *sweyg- Proto-Indo-European
- *werk'- Proto-Indo-European
- *werḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bi Proto-Germanic
- *bi- Proto-Germanic
- be- Old English
- beclyppan Old English
- befȳlan Old English
- begyrdan Old English
- beswīcan Old English
- betwēonan Old English
- bewyrċean Old English
- bīeġan Old English
- baye Middle English
- beien Middle English
- bi- Old High German
- binnen Middle High German
- 𐌱𐌹- Gothic
- *binnan Old Dutch
- bi- Old Dutch
- beroren Middle Low German
- binnen Middle Low German
- bi- Old Saxon
- *berīhan Frankish
- *berīhan, *berihan Frankish
- *birīhan, *biwrīhan Frankish
- binnen Western Frisian