The story
- Old English · inherited frombesāwan“to sow, sow about”
- Middle English · inherited frombesowen
- English todaybesow
From Middle English besowen, bisawen, from Old English besāwan (“to sow, sow about”); equivalent to be- + sow. Cognate with Middle High German besǣjen (“to besow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.