An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/bähen

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

bähen

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This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry bähen.

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2526294An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B — bähenJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

bähen, verb, ‘to warm by poultices, foment, toast (bread),’ from the equivalent Middle High German bœn, bœjen, Old High German bâjan, bâan. The Teutonic root is bê, from pre-Teutonic bhê, to which ba- of the Old Teutonic words for Bad is related by gradation. The original sense of the primitive stem bhê, by gradation bha, was probably ‘to make warm by washing, bathing.’