beiða

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeiːða/
• Rhymes: -eiːða

From Old Norse beiða, from Proto-Germanic *baidijaną.

beiða (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative beiddi, supine beitt)

1. (ditransitive, takes the accusative and genitive) to ask, to request

• (request): biðja, beiðast

beiða f (genitive singular beiðu, nominative plural beiður)

1. a mantis, a praying mantis

Causative of bíða. From Proto-Germanic *baidijaną (“to demand”),

beiða (singular past indicative beiddi, plural past indicative beiddu, past participle beiddr)

1. to ask, beg, request
   1. (ditransitive, with accusative/dative and genitive) to ask someone for something, request something from someone
   2. (transitive, with accusative)
      beiða lǫgbeiðing

      to make a lawful request

• beiddr (“unwilling, reluctant”)
• beiðing f (“request, demand”)
• beiðni f (“request, demand”)
• beiðsla f (“request, demand”)
• beizla f (“request, demand”)

• bíða (“to wait, abide”)

• Icelandic: beiða
• Faroese: beiða
• Old Swedish: bēþa
  • ⇒ Old Swedish: bēþas (from passive)
    • Swedish: bedas

• beiða in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.