bylden

• beelden, belde, bilden, bildyn, bulden, buylde, buylden

Inherited from Old English bytlan, from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan, from Proto-Germanic *buþlijaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːldən/
• (Southern) IPA^(key): /ˈbyːldən/

bylden (third-person singular simple present byldeth, present participle byldynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative bylte, past participle bylt)

1. To lodge: to stay or reside.
2. To make, start, or begin:
   1. To erect, build, or create (a structure or building)
      • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Joon 2:20, page 45r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

        þerfoꝛ the iewis ſeiden to hym / in fourti ⁊ ſixe ȝeer þis temple was bildid .· ⁊ ſchalt þou in þꝛe daies reiſe it .·?

        Then the Jews said to him: "This temple was built in forty-six years, and you want to rebuild it in three days?"

   2. To establish, begin, create (an organisation)
3. To edify; to improve or promote welfare and religion.
4. To furnish; to supply quarters with necessities.

• bylden is rarely found outside Southwestern Middle English before well into the 14th century.

• byldere
• byldynge

• English: build

• “bīlden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-16.

bylden

1. plural of byld