- Bedesman, or
beadsman (Middle
English bede, 'prayer', from the Old
English biddan, 'to pray'; lit. 'a man of prayer'; and from the Anglo-Saxon bed), was generally...
- think' (gemination also in ON) *bidjaną
bidjan *biddijan(ą)
bitten biddian biddan biðja 'to ask' *hlahjaną
hlahjan *hlahhijan(ą) (h)lahhan
hlahhian hlæhhan...
- were
never followed by /j/ due to Sievers' law. PG *bidjaną, *habjaną > OE
biddan,
habban > ModE bid, have This
period is
estimated to have
lasted only a...
- A bidding-prayer (Old English:
biddan, "to pray", cf. German: beten) is the
formula of prayer, or
exhortation to prayer, said
during worship in churches...
