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DANISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

bie.

to stay, wait

3 characters1 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

verb/biːə/[ˈb̥iːi]
  1. to stay, wait

    archaic
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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