byde

byde

1. Obsolete form of bide.

• Deby

From Old Danish biuthæ, from Old Norse bjóða, from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), cognate with English bid and German bieten. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to wake, rise up”), which is also the source of Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “awakened, enlightened”) (hence buddha).

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥yːðə]

byde (imperative byd, infinitive at byde, present tense byder, past tense bød, perfect tense har budt)

1. to order, command, bid
2. to ask, invite
3. to offer
4. to bid (to make an offer)

• (invite): indbyde
• (offer): tilbyde

• by

From Old Norse bjóða, from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to wake, rise up”).

byde

1. to order; command

• “byde” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

byde (present tense byd or byder, past tense baud or bydde, past participle bode or bydd or bydt, present participle bydande, imperative byd)

1. Alternative form of by