bileve
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- beleve, byleve
- beleeve, believe, bilieve, byleeve (especially Late Middle English); beleave (Early Middle English or Kent)
- bileave (AB language); byleove (Southwest Midland)
- belefe, belyefe (Northern); beleiff, belewe (Early Scots)[1]
Etymology
[edit]A modification of Old English lēafa, ġelēafa[2] after bileven, from Proto-West Germanic *laubu, from Proto-Germanic *laubô, equivalent to bi- + leve.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bileve (uncountable) (chiefly non-Northern)[3]
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “beleve, belief, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- ^ “bilēve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ Hudson, Anne (1983), “Observations upon a Northerner's Vocabulary”, in E. G. Stanley, Douglas Gray, editors, Five Hundred Years of Words and Sounds: a Festschrift for Eric Dobson, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 79.
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- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewbʰ- (love)
- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
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