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Bes mezzana (the word, a  of  medius, is properly ‘middle-mast’).   ,, ‘to cover (a mare),’ first occurs in ; a denominative from schël, schële, , ‘brood stallion.’ See.  ,, ‘to distribute, assign, summon,’ from bescheiden,  bisceidan, ‘to divide, decide, relate, report.’ The  and   bescheiden, meant  ‘definite,’ then ‘clear, distinct, intelligible, prudent.’ See.  ', ', ,, ‘to sniff at’; akin to the  to snivel, snuff, snuffle, and.   ,, ‘to deceive,’ from , ‘to worry.’ ,, ‘to scale, deceive,’ from ; the cognate words of the same group show that pf, not pp, is the strictly form. It seems to belong to the stem of skopa, ‘to deride’;  scop, ‘derision.’ To the same stem belongs an  term for ‘poet,’  scop,  scopf, which, on account of its meaning, is important for the right conception of poetic composition among our ancestors.  ,, ‘difficulty, grievance, malady,’ from beswœrde, , ‘oppression, grief,’ allied to.   ,, ‘to appease, compose.’ The Germans connect this word instinctively with ; it forced its way, however, in the last half of the preceding from  into the written language, and its cht is the earlier  ft; it corresponds to  swiften, ‘to pacify,’  swiftôn, ‘to be quiet.’ The stem is the same as in  sweiban, ‘to cease, leave off’; with this the cognates of  accord fairly well both in sound and meaning; the  root swī̆b, swī̆g, is based upon the Aryan swī̆q (swī̆g in  σϊγάω; see under ).   ,, ‘besom, broom,’ from the  bësen, bësem, bësme,  bësamo; it corresponds to  besma,  besom,  *bisma, which have the same meaning; a pre- word of obscure origin; perhaps  and  are allied. Since the dialects point to an  bîsma, ‘besom,’ it is possible that the word is connected with, and the  root bī̆s, ‘to move in a restless, excited way.’   , word, a diminutive form, like the   beseke,, ‘small  berry’; akin to  bes,  basi. See under.  ,, ‘better’; see the corresponding  ;  ; from  beȥȥer, best (beȥȥist),  beȥȥiro, beȥȥist; corresponds to  betera, betst,  better, best;  batiza, batists. Even in   formed its degrees of comparison in this way, which might be represented in  by *bhadyas-, *bhadišṭha-. The etymology of  is difficult to get at; in the case of  we are assisted by the cognate root in, the  meaning of which is ‘utility’; the ethical notion arose from that of interest. At all events, thus the matter stands from the merely point of view. It has been connected more remotely with bhadrá-s, to which the primary meaning ‘shining’ is assigned; but in this sense the  word cannot be cognate; it belongs to the root bhand, and would consequently become *buntrs in. The chief significations of bhadrá-s, however, are ‘capable, salutary, prosperous,’ which are in closer approximation to the idea of interest. Of these meanings and  might form the degrees of comparison. , of, for which  is now used. ,, ‘to convey, bury,’ from ,. ,, ‘to cover with dirt,’ from sülwen, sulwen, ‘to soil,’ also süln,  sū̆llen,  sȳ̆lian,  sauljan. <section begin="betäuben" /> ,, ‘to deafen, bewilder, confuse,’ ‘to make deaf.’ See. <section end="betäuben" /> ,, ‘to entreat, pray,’ from the  bëten,  bëtôn;   bida,  bëta, ‘request, prayer.’ Formed from the  root bī̆d (Aryan bhidh), discussed under. <section begin="Bett" /> ,, ‘bed,’ from the  bet, bette,  beti, betti, ; com,  bedd,  bed,  badi. For  the form  is found in the 18th  (e.g., in Gessner), just as for  this word  is used popularly (and in );. The signification (‘garden-bed’) makes the connection with the  root in fodio, ‘to bury,’ possible (  bedd, ‘grave’; also  bodą, ‘I prick’);  badi ( *fŏdium), might therefore have arisen from Aryan bhodhiom. The primary meaning was probably ‘an excavated spot’; the <section end="Bett" />