English

Alternative forms

• bead

Noun

bede ‎(plural bedes or beden)

1. prayer, request, supplication
   • 1875 March, in Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15 Number 87:

     Thus originated the alms-(or bede-) houses so frequently met with in the retired villages of England.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night:

     By Allah thy bede is good indeed and right is thy rede!

   • 2008, Time to Ditch St. George:

     […] because miracles had frequently been done at his burial-place, even at the bede-house where he was buried.

   • 2011, Where Did Beaded Flowers Come From?:

     Because of the length of the original rosary, it became customary to pay someone, usually a resident of an almshouse, to recite the prayers. These people were referred to as bede women or men, and it was they who made the first bead flowers.

2. order, command
3. rosary

Etymology 2

From Middle English bēden ‎(“to pray, offer, proffer, request, demand, order, command, forbid; proclaim, declare; present, counsel, advise, exhort”), from Old English bēodian ‎(“to command, decree, summon, banish, declare, inform, announce, proclaim; threaten, offer, proffer, give, grant, surrender”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ-. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian biada, Old Saxon biodan (Low German beden), Dutch bieden, Old High German biotan (German bieten), Old Norse bjóða (Swedish bjuda ‎(“command, show”)), Gothic *𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 ‎(biudan) (attested in compounds). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek πευθεσθαι ‎(peuthesthai, “ask for”), Sanskrit बोधयित ‎(bodhayita, “wake”), Old Church Slavonic бъдети ‎(bŭdeti) (Russian будить ‎(budit’, “wake”)), Lithuanian budeti ‎(“awake”). See also bid.

Verb

bede ‎(third-person singular simple present bedes, present participle beding, simple past bade, past participle bode or boden)

1. pray, offer, proffer
   • 1500, The Towneley Plays:

     Sir, a bargan bede I you.

2. request, demand, order, command, forbid
3. proclaim, declare
   • (Can we date this quote?) Le Mort Arthur:

     A turnement were best to bede.

4. present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
   • 1450, Merlin:

     They of londone […] boden hem to ben lyht of herte.

Etymology 3

Noun

bede ‎(plural bedes)

1. (mining) A kind of pickaxe.

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1911
• Middle English Dictionary

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beːdə/, [ˈb̥eːðə] or (in case of: entreat, pray, request): IPA^(key): /beː/, [ˈb̥eːˀ]

Etymology 1

• (Beet): From Latin beta ‎(“beet”).

Noun

bede c (singular definite beden, plural indefinite beder)

1. beet (the root plant Beta vulgaris)

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse biðja, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną ‎(“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Cognate with Swedish be, bedja, Icelandic biðja, English bid, West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden, German bitten.

Alternative forms

• be'

Verb

bede ‎(imperative bed, infinitive at bede, present tense beder, past tense bad, perfect tense er/har bedt)

1. ask, request
2. beg, entreat, implore
3. pray

Etymology 3

From Old Norse beita ‎(“to let graze, rest”). Compare English bait.

Verb

bede ‎(imperative bed, infinitive at bede, present tense beder, past tense bedede, perfect tense har bedet)

1. make a halt, take a rest

Etymology 4

See bed ‎(“bed, garden plot”).

Noun

bede n

1. plural indefinite of bed

Etymology 5

Ultimately from Middle Low German. Either the Danish noun derives from a now-archaic verb bede ‎(“to castrate, geld, wether”), which derives from Middle Low German böten, or the noun derives from a Middle Low German noun bete.

Noun

bede c (singular definite beden, plural indefinite beder)

1. a wether (a castrated ram)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːdə
• Hyphenation: be‧de

Noun

bede f ‎(plural beden or bedes, diminutive bedetje n)

1. plea
2. (archaic) a prayer

Derived terms

• bedevaart

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse biðja, compare with Danish bede

Verb

bede ‎(imperative bed, present tense beder, passive bedes, simple past bad, past participle bedt, present participle bedende)

1. (archaic) to ask; request
2. to pray

Synonyms

• be

References

• “bede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse biðja

Alternative forms

• beda

Verb

bede

1. (archaic) to ask; request
2. to pray

Synonyms

• be

References

• “bede” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Alternative forms

• beide

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bai-, whence also Old Norse báðir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeː.de/

Adjective

bēde

1. both

Descendants

• Middle High German: beide, bēde
  • German: beide
  • Yiddish: ביידע ‎(beyde)

References

• Joseph Wright, An Old High-German Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary, Oxford, 1888, p. 143.

Old Irish

Verb

bede

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of is