An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/bidmen

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B (1891)
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis
bidmen
Friedrich Kluge2506255An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B — bidmen1891John Francis Davis

bidmen, wk. vb., an UpG. word equiv. in meaning to beben, ‘to tremble, shake,’ and allied to it; MidHG. bidemen, ‘to tremble,’ OHG. *bidimôn, must represent *bibimôn, bibinôn; respecting the relation of the consonants comp. OHG. pfëdamo and its variant pëbano under Pfebe. The OHG. bibinôn is an intensive form of OHG. bibên. See beben.