different between begripe vs begrime

English

Etymology

From Middle English begripen, bigripen, from Old English begr?pan (“to grip, seize, lay hold of; chide”), from Proto-West Germanic *bigr?pan. Equivalent to be- (“around, about”) +? gripe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b????a?p/

Verb

begripe (third-person singular simple present begripes, present participle begriping, simple past and past participle begriped)

1. (transitive) To lay hold of; apprehend; grip; grasp.
   • 1899, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Edward Strachey, William Caxton, Le morte Darthur:

     And as for this sword there shall never man begripe it at the handle but one, but he shall pass all other. In the name of God, said Percivale, I shall essay to handle it. So he set his hand to the sword, but he might not begripe it.

Related terms

• begrip

Middle Dutch

Verb

begripe

1. inflection of begripen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German begripen.

Verb

begripe (imperative begrip, present tense begriper, passive begripes, simple past begrep or begreip, past participle begrepet, present participle begripende)

1. to grasp, understand, comprehend

Derived terms

• begripelse

References

• “begripe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “begripe” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German begripen.

Verb

begripe (present tense begrip, past tense begreip, past participle begripe, passive infinitive begripast, present participle begripande, imperative begrip)

1. to grasp, understand, comprehend

Alternative forms

• begripa

References

• “begripe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bigr?pa, from Proto-West Germanic *bigr?pan. Equivalent to be- +? gripe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???rip?/

Verb

begripe

1. to understand, to comprehend

Inflection

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From be- (“about, all over”) +? grime.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?m

Verb

begrime (third-person singular simple present begrimes, present participle begriming, simple past and past participle begrimed)

1. (transitive) To make something dirty; to soil.

Translations