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Bet  already common to the group, ‘bed, lectus’ (akin to  bœdhil, ‘nest’), may be elucidated by reference to the cave-dwellings of the Teutons (see ). In early times the bed was evidently dug like a niche in the sides of the subterranean dwellings. The meaning ‘bolster,’ common to beðr and  patja (borrowed from ), does not, it is true, harmonise with this explanation.   ,, ‘beggary, trash,’ akin to bëtel, ‘begging.’  ,, ‘to beg, live by begging,’ from the  bëtelen,  bëtalôn, a frequentative of ; to this , from bëtelœre,  bëtalâri, is allied. ', ', and, ‘quiet(ly), reserved(ly)’; of  origin (bâtûach, ‘confident, sure’).  ', ',, ‘small cap,’ from  bezel, , ‘hood.’  , see. ,, ‘to bow, humble,’ from the  böugen,  bougen, boucken; it corresponds to  bêgan, bîgan, ‘to bow,’  to bay, ‘to dam (water)’; factitive of ; hence  ‘to cause to bend.’  ,, ‘boil, swelling,’ from the  biule,  bûlla, *bûllea, , ‘blister’;   bŷle,  bile (also boil),  buil, ‘boil’;  *bûljô, ‘swelling,’ is connected with  ufbauljan, ‘to inflate,’ and stands probably for *bûgwliô, properly  (hump); akin to.   ,, from the  biunde,  biunt, ‘a vacant and enclosed plot reserved for a special wing or outhouse, enclosure’; no connection with  fundus is possible. biwende, ‘an enclosed space,’ shows that an *bi-want, ‘that which winds round, a hedge,’ is implied. Respecting bi, ‘round about,’ see.    (1.),, ‘kneading trough, beehive,’ from biute, ,  biutta, , with the same meaning; it presupposes  *biudja. is the most nearly allied, unless the latter is of origin. The derivation from biot,  biuþs,  beód, ‘table,’ seems uncertain; of course  beód also means ‘dish.’

 (2.),, ‘booty,’ from the  biute; on account of  buit,  bŷte, ‘booty, exchange,’ hence ‘to exchange, divide,’ the t indicates that the word was borrowed. booty is derived from the bŷte, but it has also been  confused with boot, ‘gain, advantage’ (see ). The t would have become fs, tz in. As t would represent the dental in, , biudan cannot, according to the laws of the permutation of consonants, be allied to ; we must assume that the root of the latter is  bût, pre- bhū̆d. butin, ‘booty,’ is borrowed from these cognates. buaid, ‘victory.’    (1.),, ‘a ripping chisel, a piece of wood for beating flax,’ first occurs in ; the t points to a origin; in  we should have expected fs, in  ȥ ( bôȥel, bœȥel). bœ̂tel, bŷtel,  beetle (for beating flax); from a root baut, ‘to strike, beat’ ( beátan,  beat,  bauta,  bôȥȥan), which still appears in.

 (2.),, ‘purse,’ from biutel, , , ‘purse, pocket,’  bûtil;   buidel (buil), ‘purse’;  *bûdils. The word cannot, however, be traced farther back than ; its kinship to, root bud, from bhudh, would throw no light on the meaning.   ,, ‘cooper's mallet for driving on the hoops.’ like , ‘beetle,’ belongs properly to ; , hammer, from  heie,  heia, ‘hammer’; hence , ‘driving hammer.’ <section end="Beutheie" /> ,, ‘before, from bevor,  bifora;  the corresponding  before, from  beforan.  (1.),, ‘to move,’ from bewëgen,  biwëgan. See.

 (2.),, ‘to stir, excite,’ from the  bewęgen,  biwęcken, biwęgen, factitive of the preceding. See. <section begin="Beweis" /> ,, first occurs in , from bewîsen, ‘to instruct, show, prove’;. <section end="Beweis" /> ', ', ; the former, with a change in meaning due to, is also written , ‘to accuse of, charge with’; derivatives of a  biziht (beziht), , ‘accusation’;. <section begin="Bezirk" /> ,, ‘circuit, district, sphere,’ from zirc, ‘circle, circumference, district’; from  circus, ‘circle.’ The word, as z for  c shows, was borrowed very early during the  period. <section end="Bezirk" /> <section begin="Bibel" /> ,, ‘bible,’ from bibel, of which there is a variant, biblie ( bible. <section end="Bibel" />