belicgan

From Proto-West Germanic *biliggjan, from Proto-Germanic *biligjaną (“to lie around”), equivalent to be- +‎ liċġan. Cognate with Old High German biliggen.

• IPA^(key): /beˈlij.jɑn/, [beˈlid.d͡ʒɑn]

beliċġan

1. to lie by or about, beleaguer, encompass, beset
2. to extend by or out
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Æt þǣm ende, hit beliċġað ðā beorgas, þe man hǣt Alpis: þā onginnað westane fram þǣm Wendelsǣ, in Narbonense þǣre ðēode and endiað eft ēast in Dalmatia þǣm lande, æt þǣm sǣ.

     At the end extend the mountains known as the Alps; they begin in the west of the Mediterranean, in Gallia Narbonensis, and end at the eastern sea in the land of Dalmatia.

• Middle English: beliggen, belyen
  • English: belie (“to lie around, beleaguer”)
  • Scots: bely