biver

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verb

To shiver; to tremble, shake, quiver.

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:biver.”

OriginMiddle English biveren ← Old English beofian ← Proto-West Germanic *bibēn →
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Meanings

verbbiver (third-person singular simple present bivers, present participle bivering, simple past and past participle bivered)

present singular third person bivers · participle present bivering · participle past bivered · past bivered

  1. intransitiveobsoleterareTo shiver; to tremble, shake, quiver.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:biver.

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*bibāną“to quake, shiver”
  2. Proto-West Germanic*bibēn
  3. Old Englishbeofian
  4. Middle Englishbiveren
  5. Englishbiver

From Middle English biveren, beveren (“to tremble”), frequentative form of Old English beofian, bifian (“to tremble, be moved, shake, quake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bibēn, from Proto-Germanic *bibāną (“to quake, shiver”). Cognate with West Frisian bibberje (“to shiver”), Dutch bibberen (“to shiver, quiver”), Low German beveren (“to shiver”), German Low German bevern (“to tremble”), German bibbern (“to shiver”). Related also to Dutch beven (“to quake”), German beben (“to quake, tremble”), Swedish bäva (“to quake, tremble”), Icelandic bifa (“to budge, be moved”), Latin foedus (“disgusting, shocking, abominable, heinous”).

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APA

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