Etymology

beliven

B3E1L1I1V4E1N1
Middle English beliven ← Old English belifen
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Old English · inherited frombelifen
  2. Middle English · inherited frombeliven
  3. English todaybeliven

From Middle English beliven, from Old English belifen, past participle of belīfan (“to remain”).

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishbeliven all →

belivebelave

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.