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Bis . The - origin is indeed supported by the initial b as well as the loss of the original e at the beginning;  vescovo,  vesque (also evesque,  évêque, and  epscop). further jepĭskopŭ.   ,, ‘bit, morsel,’ from the  biȥȥe,  biȥȥo;   bita,  bit, and.   ,, ‘bishopric.’ Even in bischtuom and bistuom,  biscetuom, from biscoftuom. By a similar change was formed from bischoves marc; on the borders of such a mark the property of the tribe was situated.   ', ', ‘bit, trifle,’ from.  ,, ‘to beg, entreat, invite,’ from the  and  bitten (from bitjan, bidjan); it is a   of the class e—a—â—e. bidjan, baþ, bêdum, bidans; biddan; in  to bid, both  and  appear;  to beg, from  bedecian ( *bidaqôn?   and  *bidaqa, ‘beggar’). The  belonged originally to the i class ( bidja, *baiþ, *bidum, bidans might therefore be conjectured); a trace of this gradation is shown further by the factitive  baidjan,  bœ̂dan,  beiten, with the meaning ‘to order, demand, compel.’ The root bheidh, bhidh, accords with  πιθ (for φιθ, according to the well-known rule), πείθω, ‘to induce by entreaties, get by asking, persuade, convince’; to this belongs also  fîdo ( to the  Mid. Voice πείθομαι), ‘to rely on a person.’ With this meaning an  bîdan, ‘to await, wait with full confidence’ ( beidan,  bîtan,  bîdan,  to bide), has been connected. The noun  is  bita, most frequently bëta,  bida. See,. ,, ‘bitter,’ from the  bitter,  bittar. This t, since it comes before r, represents the t common to the cognates; before r the permutation of t to ȥ, tz does not take place ;  bittar,  bittor, biter,  and  bitter; hence we should have expected  *bĭtrs, for which a form with a remarkable ái, baitrs, ‘bitter,’ occurs. The word is undoubtedly cognate with (root bit,  bîtan); the  properly signifies ‘pricking, sharp,’ being now, like, restricted to the taste. For other cognates. ,, ‘flat,’ from blach;  it is, like Swiss blacke, ‘a large board,’ related to.  ,, ‘cuttlefish,’ from blackfisk. Blak is the term for ink (blakhorn, ‘inkstand’);   blœc, ‘ink,’  black (a colour and shoemaker's black),  blach.   ,, ‘coarse linen,’ from balhe, blâ, ; a dialect. widely diffused word, with the parallel forms blähe, plane, blache, plauwe; the form is  *blahwa?.   ,, ‘to inflate,’ from the  blœjen,  blâjan,   (the  word also means ‘to blow’);   blâwan,  to blow. The root blâ (blê) agrees partly with  flare (Aryan root bhlâ);, , and  are also closely related to it. especially seems to have arisen from the shorter root, also preserved in, by adding s to the stem of the present.   ,, ‘chandelier’ (in Voss), from the  and  blaker;   blœcern; from the  and  blaken, ‘to burn, glow.’ For further  and Aryan cognates see under. <section end="Blaker" /> ,, ‘bright, drawn (of a sword),’ from the blanc,  blanch, ‘gleaming, white, resplendently beautiful.’   blank (‘white’), ( blanca, blonca,  blakkr, ‘white or grey horse’); related to  blakra, ‘to gleam’; formed by gradation from the root blek in  ( also ). The made its way into  ( bianco,  blanc), whence  with a  suffix;  also. The less frequent — a recent formation from the verb — is found as a parallel form to  in. <section begin="Blankscheit" /> ,, ‘busk’ (whalebone in a corset), corrupted in from  planchette. <section end="Blankscheit" /> <section begin="Blase" /> ,, ‘blister, bubble, flaw,’ from blâse,  blâsa; the last two specially mean ‘urinary bladder.’   and. <section end="Blase" /> ,, ‘to blow, sound, smelt,’ from blâsen,  blâsan, ‘to breathe, snort’;  tho   blêsan; in  only the   blœst,  blast, has been preserved. The s of, which does not occur in the root bhlê of the cognate languages, is considered by some to be simply a present suffix which was not joined to the stem until a later period; in that case and  may be