The story
- Proto-West Germanic*buþlijan
- Old Englishbytlan
- Middle Englishbilden
- English todaybuild
From Middle English bilden, buylden, bylden, from Old English byldan and bytlan, bytlian (“to build”), from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English botl (“building, house”). More at bottle. False cognate of German bilden.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishbyldan all →
bield
Proto-Indo-European*bʰuH- all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.