bebay

The story

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*bi-
2. Old English · inherited frombīeġan“to bend, turn, turn back, incline, depress, abase, humiliate, subject, persuade, convert”
3. Middle English · inherited frombeien
4. English todaybebay

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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