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Bei  bite, bit, corresponds;  is a diminutive of it. , from biȥȥe,  biȥȥo;  biti,  bite.   ,, ‘loach,’ adopted from ( piskoŕ,  piskárĭ), and based by popular etymology on  (the fish is also called , ‘river-loach,’ , ‘pond-loach’).  ,, ‘to cauterise, pickle, etch,’ from beiȥen (beitzen), weak , ‘to macerate, make soft, hawk at birds’;  beiȥen (beizzen),  sense ‘to cause to bite,’ is the factitive of  bîȥȥan, see. The corresponding to bait (a hook, a horse on a journey, and hence to put up, halt at a place, also to allure) is derived from the  beita, which is identical with  beizzan. , see.   (1.),, ‘a kind of salmon’; of obscure origin. See.

 (2.),, ‘coot,’ from bęlche,  bęlihha;  fulica seems allied to it, although  hh implies a  g; the  guttural suffix is the same as in  ā̆haks, ‘pigeon.’ See also ,.  ,, ‘to cheat,’ a word, from  and  belemmeren, ‘to hinder, molest,’ and allied to ?. ,, ‘to snarl, nag,’ only; an intensive form of the following word. ,, from the  bëllen,  bëllan, ‘to bark, bellow’;  bëllan,  to bell (of a stag at the rutting period); the  word indicates accordingly that the primary meaning was more general than simply ‘barking, bellowing.’ If an e root be assumed,  blěja, ‘bleat,’ and  fleo, ‘I weep’ (b, f from bh and bhlê for bhel), may be compared. Others have explained the West root bell from belz, bels, bhels, which would result in its being cognate with  bhaš, ‘to bark,’ bhâš, ‘to talk.’   bàlsas, ‘voice, tone’; see, too, the following word and.  ,, ‘bell-wether,’ only; a  word ( herma,  to , ‘herdsman’), corresponding exactly to  bel-hamel,  bell-wether. clocheman, clocman (of origin), also  mouton à la sonnette, make the connection of  with  bel,  and  belle,  bell, indubitable. In animal fables the bell-wether has the pro - per name Belin (akin to  belier, ‘ram’), from the  bel, ‘little bell,’ whence also  bélière, ‘ring of a bell-clapper.’   ,, ‘straits,’ akin to belte,  and  belt, baldrick ( balz), ‘girdle, shoulder-belt’?. is thus a ‘zone of land’?. The cognate balteus is, according to Varro, a Tuscan word.  ,, ‘to graft,’ also ; belzen,  belzôn with the same meaning; cognate with  empeltar, ‘to graft,’ which, with  pelletier, ‘furrier’ (see ), belongs to  pellis.  ,, ‘slice of bread,’ first occurs in ; a and  word, a  of the  bammen, ‘to eat,’ which may have been *bazmôn in , and is perhaps  allied to the  root bhas, ‘to chew.’   ,, from the  bendel,  bentil;   bendel,  bendell; akin to.   ,, ‘cudgel,’ then in a figurative sense ‘rude person, blackguard,’ from bengel, , ‘cudgel.’   bangle (club), from the verb to bang,  banga, ‘to strike, beat,’  bangen. The stem bang-, ‘to strike,’ seems to have been nasalised from the root bâg, mentioned under. <section end="Bengel" /> <section begin="Benne" /> ,, ‘wicker cart,’ only; an old  and perhaps   word which Festus records as old Gallic benna. benne, ‘dosser,’ binn,  bin. <section end="Benne" /> , Jewish, ‘to pronounce the benediction, say grace,’ from benedicere. ,, ‘convenient, comfortable,’ from bequœ̂me,  biquâmi, ‘suitable, fit.’ Akin to  gecwême,  îcwême, cwême, ‘agreeable, suitable’; qêmi-, the base, is a verbal  from  qiman,  chuman, ‘to come,’ for which the meaning ‘to be fitting, to suit,’ already existing in  gaqimiþ, ‘it is fitting,’ is presupposed;   becuman,  become. See and  convenire, ‘to fit in with, be becoming, suit,’ which is  allied. ,, ‘to pay,’ only. The comparison usually made with must be abandoned; it means ‘to give ’ (a coin of small value having the impress of a raven). and (to give, i.e. money). , see. ,, ‘ready, prepared,’ from