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Bil  ,, ‘henbane,’ from the  bilse,  bilisa, ; also a  form bilme, equal to  bulme,  beolene ( beleño). The stems bilisa, beluna, common to the group, correspond to  felix, filix, ‘fern,’ but more closely to  belená,  bielun, ‘henbane.’  further  beelde, ‘henbane.’  , see,.  ',, ', ‘pumice-stone,’ from the  bümez,  bumiz; hence we should expected. The relation between and  cruc-em is similar to that between  and the type,  pumic-em ( pumex). The i of the form is, as in ,. From pumex ( pomice) are also derived  puimsteen, and  pûmicstân. With regard to s for z, see.  ,, ‘to tie, bind,’ from binden,  bintan, corresponds to  and  bindan,  to bind,  bindan; the meaning does not change, hence it was the same in   as in  and. The pre- form of the root must have been bhendh; the corresponding  root bandh, ‘to chain, fasten’;  (with f for bh initially) offendimentum, ‘bond, cable’;  πεῖσμα for *πένθσμα, ‘bond,’ also ‘father-in-law,’ as well as  bándhu, ‘a relative.’ In  numerous forms are derived by gradation from the same root (e.g.,  bond, bend). benda, ‘bandage,’ bendare, ‘to bind up,’ are borrowed.  ,, earlier , ‘mercury’; , a name of a plant, from bunge,  bungo, ‘bulb.’ See.  ,, ‘within,’ from ( and ) binnen;  the corresponding  binnan, ‘within,’ from biinnan, with suppression of the i of bi, as in ,. See.   (Swiss ),, ‘rush,’ from the of the   binȥ, bineȥ, ,  binuȥ, ;   binut,  beonet,  bent, bentgrass, as well names of places, , , with a  vowel. The most probable derivation is that given in the period, by Notker, from bi- and naȥ (see ); hence  ‘that which grows in wet places.’ LFranc. and have a stem biusa corresponding to  bies,  bese, which are not cognate with.    (Swiss, ), , ‘birch,’ from the  birke ( birche),  bircha, birihha;   birce,  birch; also  berk,  beorc,  bjǫrk,  *bairka, , or *bairkjô,. This term, common to the group, is one of the few names of trees of  Aryan origin ; the pre- form is bhergâ (bhergyâ) and corresponds to  bhûrja,, ‘a kind of birch’ ( also ‘birch bark’),  brĕza, ,  bérżas.   ,, ‘pear’; the n belongs properly to the inflexion; bir (and still dialectic),  birn;  bira, ‘pear.’ Derived from the  pĭrum, or rather  pĭra. On account of the initial b of the German word, the date at which it was borrowed can hardly be placed earlier than the 9th. The Goth applied to the ‘mulberry-tree’ the apparently cognate term baírabagms. pear, peru,  peer, are based upon the  word ( and  pera), derived from  pirum. Respecting the change of gender see.  ,, from the  birsen, ‘to chase with hounds, to shoot deer’; s after r became sch, as in , , , , , , , ; from  berser ( bersare), ‘to pierce with an arrow.’ ,, , ‘until, as far as,’ from biȥ (for which unze, unz most frequently occur); in  it was perhaps biaȥ, i.e.  is a compound of bĭ (see ,  bĭ) and aȥ ( aȥ, ‘to,’  at,  ad); biaȥ became biȥ, ‘until’ Earlier  has a variant bitze, bitz, which likewise arose from an older bi and ze, ‘to.’ Similarly  unz is composed of unt ( und) and ze. — , from the  bissolange, ‘so long, hitherto,’ for biȥ sô lange, ‘until so long.’  ,, ‘musk,’ from the  bisem,  bisam, bisamo, from  bisamum, which is of oriental origin ( besem, Syr. besmo).   ,, ‘bishop,’ from the  bischof (v),  biscof (to which  is related);  bisschop,  bisceop,  bishop, with the same meaning. In with a closer adherence to the  form (ἐπίσκοπος) aípiskaúpus. This widely diffused word was probably adopted, like the Arianism of the Goths, from the Greeks without passing through <section end="Bischof" />