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Bide
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 To bear; to endure; to tolerate. dialectal, transitive
"And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt"
- 2 dwell wordnet
- 3 To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand. archaic, transitive
"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."
- 4 To dwell or reside in a location; to abide. archaic, dialectal, intransitive
"All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell."
- 5 To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain. archaic, dialectal, intransitive
"And thither wending there that night they bode."
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- 6 To wait for; to await. archaic, transitive
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, Norwegian Bokmål bie (“to stay, to wait”), Faroese, Icelandic bíða (“to wait”), Norwegian Nynorsk bide, bie (“to wait”), Swedish bida (“to await, to bide”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (beidan, “to wait”).
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