bide

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*bʰéydʰeti
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*bīdaną“to wait”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*bīdan“to wait”
4. Old English · inherited frombīdan“to stay, continue, live, remain, delay; wait for, await, expect; endure, experience, find; attain, obtain; own”
5. Middle English · inherited frombiden
6. English todaybide

From Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan (“to stay, continue, live, remain, delay; wait for, await, expect; endure, experience, find; attain, obtain; own”), from Proto-West Germanic *bīdan (“to wait”), from Proto-Germanic *bīdaną (“to wait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydʰeti, from *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, persuade, compel, trust”). Latinate cognates (via PIE) include faith and fidelity. Cognates Cognate with Scots bide (“to dwell, to live; to stay”), Alemannic German beite (“to wait”), Cimbrian paiten (“to wait”), Dutch beiden (“to wait”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål bie (“to stay, to wait”), Faroese and Icelandic bíða (“to wait”), Norwegian Nynorsk bide, bie (“to wait”), Swedish bida (“to await, to bide”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (beidan, “to wait”).

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