different between begrace vs begrave

English

Etymology

From be- +? grace.

Verb

begrace (third-person singular simple present begraces, present participle begracing, simple past and past participle begraced)

1. (transitive) To address (one) as "Grace".
2. (transitive) To grace or endue with grace; begift; endow.

English

Etymology

From Middle English begraven, from Old English begrafan (“to bury”), from Proto-Germanic *bigraban? (“to dig around, bury”), equivalent to be- +? grave. Cognate with Saterland Frisian begreeuwe (“to bury”), West Frisian begrave (“to bury”), Dutch begraven (“to bury”), German begraben (“to bury”), Danish begrave (“to bury”), Swedish begrava (“to bury”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (bigraban, “to dig around”).

Verb

begrave (third-person singular simple present begraves, present participle begraving, simple past begraved or begrove, past participle begraved or begraven)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bury.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To engrave.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

begrave

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of begraven

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Presumably from be- +? grave; compare with Dutch begraven and Swedish begrava

Verb

begrave (imperative begrav, present tense begraver, passive begraves, simple past begravde or begravet or begrov, past participle begravd or begravet, present participle begravende)

1. to bury

   begrave stridsøksen - bury the hatchet

Derived terms

• begravelse

References

• “begrave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German begraven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???ra?v?/

Verb

begrave

1. to bury

Inflection

Derived terms

• begraafplak

Further reading

• “begrave”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011