bie.
to stay, wait
Meaning & usage
to stay, wait
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse bíða, from Proto-Germanic *bīdaną (“to wait, await”), cognate with Swedish bida, English bide, abide, German beiten (dialectal). The verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydʰeti, which is also the source of Latin fīdō (“to trust”), Ancient Greek πείθω (peíthō, “to persuade”).
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