Etymology
1. O.E.
bidan "to stay, continue, live, remain," also "to trust, rely" (cognate of O.N.
biða, O.Fris.
bidia, Goth.
beidan "to wait"), apparently from an extended stem of the root of O.E.
biddan (see bid), the original sense of which was "to command," and "to trust." Perhaps the sense evolved in prehistoric times through "endure," and "endure a wait," to "to wait." Preserved in Scotland and northern England, replaced elsewhere by
abide in all senses except
to bide one's time.
2. From Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan (“to stay, continue, live, remain, delay; wait for, await, expect; endure, experience, find; attain, obtain; own”), from Proto-West Germanic *bīdan (“to wait”), from Proto-Germanic *bīdaną (“to wait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydʰeti, from *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, persuade, compel, trust”). Latinate cognates (via PIE) include faith and fidelity.
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with Scots bide (“to dwell, to live; to stay”), Alemannic German beite (“to wait”), Cimbrian paiten (“to wait”), Dutch beiden (“to wait”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål bie (“to stay, to wait”), Faroese and Icelandic bíða (“to wait”), Norwegian Nynorsk bide, bie (“to wait”), Swedish bida (“to await, to bide”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (beidan, “to wait”). See: Middle English '
biden', Proto-Germanic '
*bīdaną', Proto-Indo-European '
*bʰéydʰeti', Alemannic German '
beite', Dutch '
beiden', Norwegian, nynorsk '
bide', Swedish '
bida'.
Verbs referencing "bide"
Danish
bie, Greek, Ancient
πείθω, Middle Dutch
biden, Alemannic German
beite.