bedrift

From be- (“about, around”) +‎ drift.

bedrift (third-person singular simple present bedrifts, present participle bedrifting, simple past and past participle bedrifted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To drift about; drift around.
   • 1909, Thomas Carlyle, Hilaire Belloc, The French revolution: a history:

     The disowned of all parties, the rejected and foolishly bedrifted hither and thither, to what corner of Nature can he now drift with advantage?

   • 1918, Katharine Lee Bates, The retinue, and other poems:

     Yet to him a new Madonna For the baby-boy who nestled On her bosom, all bedrifted With her yellow hair, [...]

   • 2011, Anonymous, William Morris, Eirkr Magnusson, The Eyrbyggja Saga and The Story of the Heath-Slayings:

     [...] That season were singing aloud round my shield. When the hollow-wrought sun-disc that Frodis' arm holdeth With blood was bedrifted before the ring's lord, [...]

• bedrive

Formally a nominalization of bedrive (with the verbal noun drift as its second part). Influenced by Middle Low German bedrif and German Betrieb.

• IPA^(key): /beˈdreft/, [b̥eˈd̥ʁæfd̥]

bedrift c (singular definite bedriften, plural indefinite bedrifter)

1. achievement
2. company, business, trade
3. farm

• heltebedrift
• bedriftslæge

• “bedrift” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Low German bedrif.

bedrift m (definite singular bedriften, indefinite plural bedrifter, definite plural bedriftene)

1. a company or business

• “bedrift” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German bedrif.

bedrift f (definite singular bedrifta, indefinite plural bedrifter, definite plural bedriftene)

1. a company or business

• “bedrift” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

bedrift c

1. feat, exploit; an impressive, heroic or otherwise laudable act
2. achievement
3. (archaic) company or business

• bragd
• hjältebragd
• hjältedåd
• stordåd