befile
English
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To make filthy; befoul; soil.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English befilen (defile, befoul, make foul) inherited from Old English befȳlan (befoul, defile, make dirty) derived from Proto-Germanic *bi- (be-, by, at, by-) prefix from English file (computer file, an aggregation of data, cutting and smoothing tool) root from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (rotten, foul, rot, stink, pus).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*puH-
Gloss
rotten, foul, rot, stink, pus
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Filegate English
- afoul English
- backfile English
- befilth English
- befoul English
- casefile English
- chronofile English
- datafile English
- defile English
- dotfile English
- dropfile English
- e-file English
- factfile English
- file English
- file handle English
- file system English
- file-card English
- fileable English
- filefish English
- filegroup English
- fileless English
- filemark English
- filemask English
- filename English
- filer English
- fileserver English
- fileset English
- filesharer English
- filespace English
- filestore English
- filetail English
- filetype English
- fileworthy English
- helpfile English
- infile English
- interfile English
- logfile English
- mailfile English
- metafile English
- misfile English
- multifile English
- notefile English
- prefile English
- pseudofile English
- putrescent English
- refile English
- savefile English
- scorefile English
- shapefile English
- sigfile English
- subfile English
- tarfile English
- tickler file English
- unfile English
- filum Latin
- puteo Latin
- puteo, putēre Latin
- puter Latin
- puter, putrem Latin
- puteō Latin
- putrefacio Latin
- putrefactio Latin
- putrefactiō Latin
- putreo Latin
- putridus Latin
- putrēre Latin
- putēre Latin
- pūs Latin
- pūteō Latin
- pūtōrem Latin
- File German
- fájl Hungarian
- puzzare Italian
- puzzore Italian
- bevuilen Dutch, Flemish
- fil French
- pourriture French
- файл Russian
- πυός Ancient Greek
- πύον Ancient Greek
- πῦον Ancient Greek
- *glemb- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁epi Proto-Indo-European
- *puH- Proto-Indo-European
- *puHtós Proto-Indo-European
- *púH-ye-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *sweyg- Proto-Indo-European
- *werk'- Proto-Indo-European
- *werḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bi Proto-Germanic
- *bi- Proto-Germanic
- *fūlaz Proto-Germanic
- *fūô Proto-Germanic
- ファイル Japanese
- fil Norwegian Nynorsk
- be- Old English
- beclyppan Old English
- befȳlan Old English
- begyrdan Old English
- beswīcan Old English
- betwēonan Old English
- bewyrċean Old English
- bīeġan Old English
- befilen Middle English
- defilen Middle English
- fil Old French
- fæll Icelandic
- फ़ाइल Hindi
- ไฟล์ Thai
- fail Indonesian
- bevulen Middle Dutch
- bi- Old High German
- fails Latvian
- փուտ Old Armenian
- файл Bulgarian
- binnen Middle High German
- ဖိုင် Burmese
- putréfier Middle French
- 𐌱𐌹- Gothic
- *fūliþu gmw-pro
- *binnan Old Dutch
- bi- Old Dutch
- 快勞 Chinese
- beroren Middle Low German
- binnen Middle Low German
- bi- Old Saxon
- 파일 Korean
- *berīhan Frankish
- *berīhan, *berihan Frankish
- *birīhan, *biwrīhan Frankish
- failas Lithuanian
- binnen Western Frisian
- baeļ Marshallese
- *putso Proto-Albanian
- *spHul Proto-Albanian
- file
- afoul
- filer
- refile
- e-file
- unfile
- defile
- infile
- befoul
- misfile
- prefile
- logfile
- sigfile
- befilth
- tarfile
- fileset
- subfile
- dotfile
- savefile
- dropfile
- factfile
- Filegate
- filefish
- metafile
- filemark
- fileless
- datafile
- casefile
- fileable
- filename
- mailfile
- notefile
- filetail
- filemask
- backfile
- helpfile
- filetype
- filespace
- interfile
- filestore
- scorefile
- multifile
- shapefile
- filegroup
- file-card
- putrescent
- pseudofile
- filesharer
- chronofile
- fileserver
- fileworthy
- file handle
- file system
- tickler file