bide

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bide"

English

WOTD – 15 September 2008

Etymology

From Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan (“to stay, continue, live, remain, delay; wait for, await, expect; endure, experience, find; attain, obtain; own”), from Proto-West Germanic *bīdan (“to wait”), from Proto-Germanic *bīdaną (“to wait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydʰeti, from *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, persuade, compel, trust”). Latinate cognates (via PIE) include faith and fidelity.

Cognates

Cognate with Scots bide (“to dwell, to live; to stay”), Alemannic German beite (“to wait”), Cimbrian paiten (“to wait”), Dutch beiden (“to wait”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål bie (“to stay, to wait”), Faroese and Icelandic bíða (“to wait”), Norwegian Nynorsk bide, bie (“to wait”), Swedish bida (“to await, to bide”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (beidan, “to wait”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, General American) IPA(key): /baɪd/
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  • (Northumbria) IPA(key): /bɛɪd/
  • Rhymes: -aɪd
  • Homophone: buyed

Verb

bide (third-person singular simple present bides, present participle biding, simple past bode or bided, past participle bided or bidden)

  1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
    • c. 1570, anonymous author, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes:
      And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt
  2. (transitive, archaic) To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
    • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
      Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them? / Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot, / Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.
  3. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
    • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.
    • 1896, S[amuel] R[utherford] Crockett, “The Adventure of the Garden”, in The Grey Man, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, page 101:
      But Sir Thomas Kennedy bode little about his house in Maybole, chiefly because his lads and lasses loved most to remain at Culzean, where the cliffs are and the sea spreads wide, clattering pleasantly on the rocks, and with the birds blithely swirling and diving about it all the year round.
    • 1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 254:
      John Dodds, the herd who bode in the place, was standing at the door, and he looked to see who was on the road so late.
  4. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
  5. (transitive, archaic) To wait for; to await.

Usage notes

  • The verb has been replaced by abide in Standard English for almost all its uses, and is now rarely found outside the expression bide one's time.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bide.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bide/ [bi.ð̞e]
  • Rhymes: -ide, -e
  • Hyphenation: bi‧de

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Basque *bide

Noun

bide inan

  1. path, track, way
  2. way, manner, method, procedure
  3. journey
  4. line
Declension
Declension of bide (inan V-stem)
indefinite singular plural proximal plural
absolutive bide bidea bideak bideok
ergative bidek bideak bideek bideok
dative bideri bideari bideei bideoi
genitive bideren bidearen bideen bideon
comitative biderekin bidearekin bideekin bideokin
causative biderengatik bidearengatik bideengatik bideongatik
benefactive biderentzat bidearentzat bideentzat bideontzat
instrumental bidez bideaz bideez bideotaz
inessive bidetan bidean bideetan bideotan
locative bidetako bideko bideetako bideotako
allative bidetara bidera bideetara bideotara
terminative bidetaraino bideraino bideetaraino bideotaraino
directive bidetarantz biderantz bideetarantz bideotarantz
destinative bidetarako biderako bideetarako bideotarako
ablative bidetatik bidetik bideetatik bideotatik
partitive biderik — — —
prolative bidetzat — — —
Derived terms
  • bidea galdu
  • bideari lotu
  • bide eman
  • labur bide
  • trenbide

Etymology 2

    Particle

    bide

    1. apparently, seemingly
      Galdu bide gara. ― It seems like we're lost.

    Further reading

    • “bide”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
    • “bide”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

    Cornish

    Etymology

    Borrowed from French bidet.

    Noun

    bide m (plural bides)

    1. bidet

    Mutation

    Mutation of bide
    radical soft aspirate hard mixed
    bide vide unchanged pide fide,
    vide*

    * after 'th
    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    References

    • “bide” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

    Danish

    Etymology

    From Old Danish bitæ, from Old Norse bíta, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną, cognate with English bite, German bissen, Dutch bijten. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”), cf. Latin findō (“to cleave”), fissiō (“breaking up”) (hence fission).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /biːðə/, [ˈb̥iðð̩]
    • Rhymes: -iːdə

    Verb

    bide (imperative bid, infinitive at bide, present tense bider, past tense bed, perfect tense har bidt)

    1. bite (to cut off a piece by clamping the teeth)

    Conjugation

    Conjugation of bide
    active passive
    infinitive bide bides
    present bider bides
    past bed —
    imperative bid —
    participle
    present bidende
    past (have / havde) bidt
    gerund biden

    Derived terms

    • bid
    • bidering
    • forbidt
    • ihjelbide
    • nedbidt
    • overbidt

    References

    French

    Etymology

    From bidon.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    bide m (plural bides)

    1. fiasco, flop
    2. (colloquial) paunch, belly
    3. (uncountable) Something fake

    Synonyms

    Derived terms

    Further reading

    Japanese

    Romanization

    bide

    1. Rōmaji transcription of ビデ

    Etymology

    Compare to dei (“up, upward”), góde (“upward, on top”), etc.

    Postposition

    bide

    1. above (in quantity)
    2. (with verbs of eating) overeating
      áde adootʼał ― he/she will overeat on crunchy object
    3. (in the reflexive) in excess of, too much

    Inflection

    Forms of bide
    singular duoplural
    1st person shide nihide
    2nd person nide nihide
    3rd person bide
    4th person (3o) yide
    4th person (3a) hade
    4th person (3i) ade —
    reflexive áde —
    reciprocal — ałde, ahiłde

    References

    • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical Lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 123

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Noun

    bide n (definite singular bideet, indefinite plural bide or bideer, definite plural bidea or bideene)

    1. alternative spelling of bidé

    Norwegian Nynorsk

    Etymology 1

    From Old Norse bíða.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /²biː.də/

    Verb

    bide (present tense bid, past tense beid, supine bide, past participle biden, present participle bidande, imperative bid)

    1. (intransitive) to exist
      Synonym: vere til

    Etymology 2

    From French.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /biˈdeː/

    Noun

    bide n (definite singular bideet, indefinite plural bide, definite plural bidea)

    1. alternative spelling of bidé

    References

    Anagrams

    Old English

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈbiː.de/
    • Rhymes: -iː.de

    Verb

    bīde

    1. inflection of bīdan:
      1. first-person singular present indicative
      2. singular present subjunctive

    Scots

    Etymology

    From Old English bīdan, from Proto-Germanic.

    Verb

    bide

    1. to dwell, to live
      Tae bide somewhaur: to dwell somewhere.
      Tae bide: to dwell.
      Whaur dae ye bide?: where do you live?
    2. to stay, to remain
      "Bide and fecht!" (traditional Scots phrase meaning "Stay and fight!")

    Derived terms

    bydand

    Serbo-Croatian

    Etymology

    Borrowed from French bidet.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /bǐdeː/
    • Hyphenation: bi‧de

    Noun

    bìdē m inan (Cyrillic spelling бѝде̄)

    1. bidet

    Declension

    Declension of bide
    singular plural
    nominative bìdē bidèi
    genitive bidèa bidéā
    dative bideu bideima
    accusative bide bidee
    vocative bideu / bidee bidei
    locative bideu bideima
    instrumental bideom bideima

    References

    • “bide”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

    Turkish

    Etymology

      Borrowed from French bidet.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /biˈde/
      • Hyphenation: bi‧de

      Noun

      bide (definite accusative bideyi, plural bideler)

      1. bidet, a type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus

      Declension

      Declension of bide
      singular plural
      nominative bide bideler
      definite accusative bideyi bideleri
      dative bideye bidelere
      locative bidede bidelerde
      ablative bideden bidelerden
      genitive bidenin bidelerin
      Possessive forms
      nominative
      singular plural
      1st singular bidem bidelerim
      2nd singular biden bidelerin
      3rd singular bidesi bideleri
      1st plural bidemiz bidelerimiz
      2nd plural bideniz bideleriniz
      3rd plural bideleri bideleri
      definite accusative
      singular plural
      1st singular bidemi bidelerimi
      2nd singular bideni bidelerini
      3rd singular bidesini bidelerini
      1st plural bidemizi bidelerimizi
      2nd plural bidenizi bidelerinizi
      3rd plural bidelerini bidelerini
      dative
      singular plural
      1st singular bideme bidelerime
      2nd singular bidene bidelerine
      3rd singular bidesine bidelerine
      1st plural bidemize bidelerimize
      2nd plural bidenize bidelerinize
      3rd plural bidelerine bidelerine
      locative
      singular plural
      1st singular bidemde bidelerimde
      2nd singular bidende bidelerinde
      3rd singular bidesinde bidelerinde
      1st plural bidemizde bidelerimizde
      2nd plural bidenizde bidelerinizde
      3rd plural bidelerinde bidelerinde
      ablative
      singular plural
      1st singular bidemden bidelerimden
      2nd singular bidenden bidelerinden
      3rd singular bidesinden bidelerinden
      1st plural bidemizden bidelerimizden
      2nd plural bidenizden bidelerinizden
      3rd plural bidelerinden bidelerinden
      genitive
      singular plural
      1st singular bidemin bidelerimin
      2nd singular bidenin bidelerinin
      3rd singular bidesinin bidelerinin
      1st plural bidemizin bidelerimizin
      2nd plural bidenizin bidelerinizin
      3rd plural bidelerinin bidelerinin
      Predicative forms
      singular plural
      1st singular bideyim bidelerim
      2nd singular bidesin bidelersin
      3rd singular bide
      bidedir       		bideler
      bidelerdir
      1st plural bideyiz bideleriz
      2nd plural bidesiniz bidelersiniz
      3rd plural bideler bidelerdir

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