different between pickaxe vs bede

English

Alternative forms

• pickax
• pick-axe

Etymology

From Old French picois, later alteration due to folk etymology association with pick and axe.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?k?æks/

Noun

pickaxe (plural pickaxes)

1. A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.

Translations

Verb

pickaxe (third-person singular simple present pickaxes, present participle pickaxing, simple past and past participle pickaxed)

1. To use a pickaxe.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• bead

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bi?d/

Etymology 1

From Middle English b?de (“prayer, request, supplication, order, command, rosary, bead”), from Old English gebed (“prayer, petition, supplication, religious service, an ordinance”), from Proto-Germanic *bed? (“prayer, entreaty”). Cognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.

Noun

bede (plural bedes or beden)

1. prayer, request, supplication
   • 1875 March, in Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15 Number 87:

     Thus originated the alms-(or bede-) houses so frequently met with in the retired villages of England.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night:

     By Allah thy bede is good indeed and right is thy rede!

   • 2008, Time to Ditch St. George:

     […] because miracles had frequently been done at his burial-place, even at the bede-house where he was buried.

   • 2011, Where Did Beaded Flowers Come From?:

     Because of the length of the original rosary, it became customary to pay someone, usually a resident of an almshouse, to recite the prayers. These people were referred to as bede women or men, and it was they who made the first bead flowers.

2. order, command
3. rosary

Etymology 2

From Middle English b?den (“to pray, offer, proffer, request, demand, order, command, forbid; proclaim, declare; present, counsel, advise, exhort”), from Old English b?odan (“to command, decree, summon, banish, declare, inform, announce, proclaim; threaten, offer, proffer, give, grant, surrender”), from Proto-Germanic *beudan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd?-. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian biada, Old Saxon biodan(Low German beden), Dutch bieden, Old High German biotan (German bieten), Old Norse bjóða (Swedish bjuda (“command, show”)), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????? (anabiudan). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ????????? (peuthesthai, “ask for”), Sanskrit ?????? (bodhayita, “wake”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (b?d?ti) (Russian ?????? (budit?, “wake”)), Lithuanian budeti (“awake”). See also bid.

Verb

bede (third-person singular simple present bedes, present participle beding, simple past bade, past participle bode or boden)

1. pray, offer, proffer
   • 1500, The Towneley Plays:

     Sir, a bargan bede I you.

2. request, demand, order, command, forbid
3. proclaim, declare

   • A turnement were best to bede.

4. present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
   • 1450, Merlin:

     They of londone […] boden hem to ben lyht of herte.

Derived terms

• misbede

Etymology 3

Unknown?

Noun

bede (plural bedes)

1. (mining) A kind of pickaxe.

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1911
• Middle English Dictionary

Anagrams

• Beed, Deeb, beed

Danish

Etymology 1

• Via Middle Low German b?ye from Latin b?ta (“beet”). Compara also German Bete and English beet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?ð?/, [?b?eðð?]

Noun

bede c (singular definite beden, plural indefinite beder)

1. beet (the root plant Beta vulgaris)

Inflection

References

• “bede,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

Either the Danish noun derives from a now-archaic verb bede (“to castrate, geld, wether”), which derives from Middle Low German böten, or the noun derives from a Middle Low German noun bete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?ð?/, [?b?eðð?]

Noun

bede c (singular definite beden, plural indefinite beder)

1. wether (a castrated ram)

Inflection

References

• “bede,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

From Old Norse biðja, from Proto-Germanic *bidjan? (“to ask”). Cognate with Swedish be, bedja, English bid, Dutch bidden, and German bitten. The Germanic verb probably goes back to Proto-Indo-European *g??ed?-, cf. Polish ??da? (“to demand”) and Ancient Greek ????????? (théssasthai, “to pray”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be??/, [?b?e?] or (formal) IPA^(key): /be?ð?/, [?b?eðð?]

Alternative forms

• be'

Verb

bede (past tense bad, past participle bedt)

1. (transitive) to ask, request (to demand something from someone, with the person as an object and with the preposition om + the thing asked for)
2. (transitive) to beg, entreat, implore (to plead to someone about something, with the person as an object and with the preposition om + the thing asked for)
3. (intransitive) to pray (to address a divinity, with the preposition til + the addressed divinity)

Inflection

References

• “bede,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 4

From Old Norse beita (“to let graze, rest”), from Proto-Germanic *baitijan?, cognate with Norwegian beite (English bait is borrowed from Old Norse). A causative of the verb *b?tan? (“to bite”) (cf. Danish bide).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?ð?/, [?b?eðð?]

Verb

bede (past tense bedede, past participle bedet)

1. (dated) to make a halt, take a rest

Inflection

References

• “bede,4” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?ð?/, [?b?eðð?]

Noun

bede n pl

1. indefinite plural of bed

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bede, from Old Dutch beda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be?.d?/
• Hyphenation: be?de
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

bede f (plural beden or bedes, diminutive bedetje n)

1. plea
2. (archaic) a prayer

Derived terms

• bededag
• bedehuis
• bedevaart
• smeekbede
• voorbede

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch beda, from Proto-Germanic *bed?.

Noun

b?de f

1. prayer
2. plea, request

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: bede

Etymology 2

Determiner

bêde

1. (Flemish) Alternative form of beide

Inflection

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse biðja, compare with Danish bede

Verb

bede (imperative bed, present tense beder, passive bedes, simple past bad, past participle bedt, present participle bedende)

1. (archaic) to ask; request
2. to pray

Synonyms

• be

References

• “bede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• be
• beda

Etymology

From Old Norse biðja

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²be??/

Verb

bede (present tense bed, past tense bad, past participle bede or bedd or bedt, present participle bedande, imperative bed)

1. to ask; request
2. to pray

Synonyms

• be

References

• “bede” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Alternative forms

• beide

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bai-, whence also Old Norse báðir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be?.de/

Adjective

b?de

1. both

Descendants

• Middle High German: beide, b?de
  • German: beide
  • Yiddish: ?????? (beyde)

References

• Joseph Wright, An Old High-German Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary, Oxford, 1888, p. 143.

Old Irish

Verb

bede

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of is

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German beten. Related to English bead.

Verb

bede

1. to pray