different between began vs beman

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA^(key): /b???æn/
• (General American, US) IPA^(key): /b???æn/
• Rhymes: -æn
• Hyphenation: be?gan

Verb

began

1. simple past tense of begin
2. (obsolete) past participle of begin

Derived terms

• beganst

Anagrams

• Bange, abeng, benga

Middle Dutch

Verb

began

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of beginnen

Old English

Etymology

From be- +? g?n. Cognate with Old High German big?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be????n/

Verb

beg?n

1. to bego, go over, traverse; get to, come by, fall into
2. to go to, visit, care for, cultivate, affect

3. to occupy, inhabit, dwell, surround, besiege, overrun

4. to practise, do, engage in, perform, commit, exercise, attend to, be diligent about, honor, serve, worship, profess; pledge, devote, train oneself

Conjugation

Derived terms

• forebeg?n
• misbeg?n
• unbeg?n

Descendants

• Middle English: bigon, begon
  • English: bego

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “beg?n”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “beg?n”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

English

Etymology

From Middle English bemannen, bimannen, bemonnen, equivalent to be- +? man. Cognate with Middle High German bemannen.

Verb

beman (third-person singular simple present bemans, present participle bemanning, simple past and past participle bemanned)

1. (transitive) To furnish or fill with men; man.
   • 1895, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library:

     Now do so well as to fare to meet me at thine earliest, and as much bemanned as may be; and let us be both together whatever may happen.

Anagrams

• Maben, maneb

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

beman

1. first-person singular present indicative of bemannen
2. imperative of bemannen