Etymology

bedaw

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Today it means: To awake. Full definition →

Middle English bedauen
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  1. Middle English · inherited frombedauen
  2. English todaybedaw

From Middle English bedauen, bedaghen (“to become day, dawn”); equivalent to be- + daw (“to dawn, to awake”). More at daw.

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