bieden

From Middle Dutch bieden, from Old Dutch biedan, from Proto-West Germanic *beudan (“to offer”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbidə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: bie‧den
• Rhymes: -idən

bieden

1. (transitive, intransitive) to make an offer, to bid

• Afrikaans: bied
• → Papiamentu: bit, bider, bieder

• bedien

bieden

1. alternative spelling of beden

From Old High German bedōn, northern variant of betōn. Cognate with German beten (“to pray”). All Central Franconian dialects have lost the verb at hand in German bitten and replaced it with the former (compare Ripuarian bedde).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbie̯den/, [ˈbiə̯dən]
• Rhymes: -iədən

bieden (third-person singular present biet, past participle gebiet, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to ask, to beg, to plead
2. (intransitive) to pray

• ubieden
• virbieden

From Old Dutch biedan.

bieden

1. to offer, to present
2. to promise
3. to point, to direct (towards someone)
4. to notify

• Dutch: bieden
• Limburgish: beje, bijje

• “bieden (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “bieden”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN