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Old English
Etymology
From ġe- + bēodan. Cognate with Old Saxon gibiodan, Old High German gibiotan (German gebieten).
Pronunciation
Verb
ġebēodan
- to command, order, summon
- to proclaim, announce
- to propose, grant, give, offer
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Æfter þǣm þe Rōmeburg ġetimbred wæs IIII hunde wintra ⁊ II, þætte Cartaina þǣre burge ǣrendracan cōmon tō Rōme ⁊ him ġebudon þæt hīe frið him betwēonum hæfden...- Four hundred and two years after the city of Rome was built, ambassadors the city of Carthage came to Rome and proposed that there be peace between them...
Conjugation