byde

English

Verb

byde

1. Obsolete form of bide.

Anagrams

• Deby

Danish

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥yːðə]

Verb

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)

Conjugation

Inflection of byde

	present	past
simple	byder	bød
perfect	har budt	havde budt
passive	bydes	—
participle	bydende	budt
imperative	byd	—
infinitive	byde	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	byden	—

Synonyms

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• by

Etymology

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

Verb

byde

1. to order; command

References

• “byde” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

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