bibbern

The contemporary form since the 19th century from Low German bibbern, probably already Middle Low German *bibberen, a frequentative of bēven (from Old Saxon bibōn, bivon), from Proto-West Germanic *bibēn, cognate of modern German beben.

Compare Dutch bibberen (1700), English bever. In spite of the late attestations, these informal verbs might be rather old in view of the etymologically regular gemination -ēv- → -ibb-, though this can also be due to analogy. Earlier High German variants are bebern, bebbern (18th c.), perhaps also pöpern (East Central German, late 17th c.). These are formed directly from beben.

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bibbern (weak, third-person singular present bibbert, past tense bibberte, past participle gebibbert, auxiliary haben)

1. to shiver
2. to jitter

• zittern
• schlottern

• Bibbern

• schütteln
• beben
• frösteln
• frieren

• “bibbern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “bibbern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “bibbern” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈbiːn/

bibbern

1. present participle of bibber
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 84:

     Aar gentrize ware bibbern, aamzil cou no stoane.

     Their gentry were quaking, themselves could not stand.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 84