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Bef been based anew on bêta, or have been taken from the  bete, thus displacing the older bieȥe, which is still found in. From and  bêta ( bieta, F. bette),  bête (whence  beet) is also derived. In another group of words borrowed from, ê became î ( , from fêriae); hence the  beisse (ei from  î) also appears occasionally for beete, bieȥe.  ,, ‘to order, command, commend,’ bevëlhen, bevëlen, ‘to hand over, entrust, deliver, command’;  bifëlhan, bifëlahan, ‘to hand over’ (also ‘to hide, bury, entrust, recommend’). The chief meaning of the   filhan in compounds with the particles ga-, us-, is also ‘to bury’; anafilhan approximates the, ‘to command, enjoin’; it means ‘to give, hand over, commend, recommend.’  befeólan (for befeolhan), ‘to entrust, make over, devote oneself.’ Hence the primary meaning of the     bifelhan is ‘to entrust, hand over, hide.’ The  root felh- is based upon pre- pelk; it is a mistake, therefore, to connect the word on account of its earlier meaning, ‘to bury,’ with  sepelire.  ,, ‘a clergyman’s bands,’ of beffe , ‘amess, cap worn by officials in   churches,’ the origin of which is obscure. In both words are wanting; the latter is found even in.  ,, ‘to desire, crave, request, from the  begërn, chiefly in the simple form gërn,  gërôn; the r probably belongs to the stem, because  as a no- points in that direction;  ,. , ‘to begin,’ from the   beginnen,  beginnan; it corresponds to Goth duginnan,  â-, be-, on-ginnan,  to begin,  biginnan, with a similar meaning. This verbal stem, which appears at an early period only in a compound form, is based upon a pre- to-, bhi-kenwô, with permutation of k to g. For the Aryan root ken  po-čĭną ( po-čęti), ‘to begin,’ konĭ, ‘beginning.’ , (to which  is allied), ‘to be comfortable,’ from the   behagen;  bilagôn,  onhagian, ‘to suit, please,’  haga, ‘to arrange.’  has only a  participle,   bihagan,  behagen, ‘fresh, joyous, comfortable’ (hence  ); the old   no longer exists in. Probably the root çak is primitively related to it — çaknômi, ‘am strong, able, helpful, beneficial,’ çakrá-s, ‘strong’;  further, , and , which with the same phonetic form approximate the earlier meaning ‘to help, protect.’ ,, ‘to maintain, assert,’ not from behaupten, which means ‘to behead.’ This word, which first occurs in , is rather derived with a change of meaning from  behaben, ‘to hold fast, keep, maintain.’ ,, ‘nimble, agile, active,’ from behęnde, , ‘suitably, conveniently, skilfully, quickly’; in  we should have expected bi hęnti , for which zi hęnti, ‘at once,’ occurs. The is compounded with the  of the  hant,  hęnti;  the similar origin of  under.  ,, ‘the authorities,’ first recorded in from ,  zuo behœren, ‘to belong to, be one's due.’   ,, ‘behalf, advantage,’ from behuof, , ‘business, purpose, means to an end’; root haf (in ), as also in  behoof,  behôf.  , and, ‘by, near, about’; the accented form of the unaccented prefix be; the Goth used in both cases bĭ; the Englishman makes a distinction like the German;  bî,  by, but be as a prefix. bî and bi- ( also, ). In bĭ means ‘around, near’; hence its kinship with  ἀμφί,  ambi- is probable; the loss of the first syllable am- also occurs in the  word for ; the base is probably ambhi-;  also.  ,, ‘confession,’ from the  bîht, contracted from  and  bíjiht, bígiht; a regular verbal noun from  bejëhen,  bi-jëhan, ‘to confess, acknowledge.’ The simple form jëhan, usually signifying ‘to say, speak out,’ also means occasionally ‘to avow, confess’; hence  gehir. This verb jëhan may possibly be connected with, which see.  ,, ‘both,’ from the  beide, béde, , , (beidiu, );  beide, béde (beido, , beidiu, );  and  have also a remarkable variant with ê ( and  bêde), although ei in other instances in  is not