bylden

Middle English

Alternative forms

• beelden, belde, bijlde, bilde, bilden, bildyn, (Later Wycliffite) bielde
• beelde (East Anglia)
• bulden, buylde, buylden (West Midland)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English bytlan, from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan, from Proto-Germanic *buþlijaną, from Proto-Germanic *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːldən/, /ˈbiːldən/, /ˈbildən/
• (Southern, West Midland) IPA^(key): /ˈbyːldən/, /ˈbyldən/

Verb

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.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Joon 2:20, folio 45, recto, 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.

Usage notes

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of bylden (weak in -te/-de/in -ed)

infinitive	(to) bylden, bylde
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	bylde	bylte, bylde, bylded
2nd-person singular	byldest	byltest, byldest, byldedest
3rd-person singular	byldeth	bylte, bylde, bylded
subjunctive singular	bylde
imperative singular		—
plural1	bylden, bylde	bylten, bylte, bylden, bylde, byldeden, byldede
imperative plural	byldeth, bylde	—
participles	byldynge, byldende	bylt, byld, bylded, ybylt, ybyld, ybylded

¹ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Derived terms

• byldere
• byldynge

Descendants

• English: build

References

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

West Frisian

Noun

bylden

1. plural of byld