The story
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*bidragan
- Old English · inherited frombedragan“to draw aside, seduce”
- Middle English · inherited frombedrawen
- English todaybedraw
From Middle English bedrawen, from Old English bedragan (“to draw aside, seduce”), from Proto-West Germanic *bidragan, equivalent to be- + draw. Cognate with Scots bedraw, bydraw (“to draw aside, supersede”), Dutch bedragen (“to total, amount to”), German betragen (“to amount to”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.