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Bib  bijbel, bible); formed from - biblia.  .   ,, ‘beaver,’ from the   biber,  bibar, ; it corresponds to  beofor,  beaver,  bever,  bjórr,  *bibrus, A term common to the Aryan family, originally eignilying a ‘brown’ aquatic animal;  fiber ( Bibracte),  bebrŭ,  běbrus (most frequently dábras), ‘beaver.’  babhrús as an  means ‘brown,’ as a   ‘great ichneumon’; bhe-bhrú-s is a reduplicated form of the root bher in  and . The primitive tribe from which the Indo-Teutons are descended had ere its dispersion several fully developed names of animals;  , , , , &c. The  word had at an early period supplanted the  fiber in , Late  biber,  bevero,  bibaro,  bièvre, from  bebru-, bibru-.   ', ', ,, ‘pimpernel,’ corruptions of the botanical term pipinella, pimpinella. Even in various corruptions are produced by popular etymology;  pimprenelle.   ',, ', , ‘pickaxe,’ from the  bicke, bickel, ;   bicken,  (ana)bicchan,  , ‘to prick, thrust’; allied to  becca,  bick-iron. It is probably connected further with a - class ( becco, bec,  bek, ‘beak,’  bêche, ‘spade,’  beccare, ‘to hack,’ &c.); it is possible that  becca, ‘pickaxe,’ is allied to  and  bacc, ‘hook.’  seems to come from another stem.  ,, an  word  in meaning to , ‘to tremble, shake,’ and allied to it;  bidemen, ‘to tremble,’  *bidimôn, must represent *bibimôn, bibinôn; respecting the relation of the consonants   pfëdamo and its variant pëbano under. The bibinôn is an intensive form of  bibên. See.  , ‘fever’. Only in compounds with -flee, -fraut, --wurz,  biever,, ‘fever.’ Its relation to  febris is ambiguous; it is probably a corruption of vieber. See.  ,, ‘staunch, honest,’ from bíderbi,  biderbi, ‘serviceable, useful,’ then ‘brave, gallant’ (  for a similar of idea);  ‘suitable  to one's need or purpose,’ for the  is a compound of the stem of , ‘to he in need of,’ and the prefix bi, which has retained its earlier accent without being replaced, as it usually is, by bî. The form was perhaps *bíþarbs; further, the  is identical with. ,, ‘to bend, curve,’ from the  biegen,  biogan,  biugan, ‘to bend.’ In  the word belongs to a different class,  bûgan,  to bow;  biugen;  , the factitive of this verb. Root bū̆g, from pre- bhū̆k, the k of which is changed in the regular manner into h in, buhil. In we should have expected *bhuc instead of the recorded bhuj (j for g), which agrees with the  word only in the sense of ‘to bend’;  fugio,  φεύγω have the more remote signification ‘to flee,’ which  bûgan also shows. Further cognates are and  ( bûhsom, bûxom, whence  buxom).  ,, ‘bee,’ from the  bine, bin, ,  bini, ; bĭ is the proper root syllable, as is shown by  bîa,  bij,  beó,  bee,  bî ( býfluga); the n of the weak declension is retained in the   bī̆ni; the form binni (from binja-), which we should have expected, is not recorded. Besides these there are and  forms with î,  bîna,,  bîn,  ; they are related perhaps to  bĭn like  sŭnus to  sûnus,  qĭwa to  jîva-, &c.;  , , ,. bitìs, bech, ‘bee,’ seem allied, though they have a different suffix. The word is based on a root bhī̆, ‘to be afraid,’ discussed under ; hence is perhaps ‘the trembler’?. Respecting. was an early remodelled form for binichar. ,, a botanical term, ‘a plant that the bee is fond of sucking.’   ,, ‘beer,’ from the  bier,  and  bior, ,   bier,  beór,  beer,  bjórr;  bière is borrowed  bier. There can be no connection with bibo,  píbâmi; nor can  πίων,  pîvas, ‘a rich drink,’ be cognate. It is rightly thought to be akin to an term for ‘barley,’  and  beó ( bygg), from  *bewwo-, based on a pre-hist. *bhéwo-, while the cognates of point to a  *bhewro-. Thus is equal to ‘barley-juice’?. 