bewe
Afrikaans
verb
Definitions
- tremble; shiver
Etymology
Inherited from Dutch, Flemish beven (shiver, tremble, shake, quake) inherited from Middle Dutch bēven inherited from Old Dutch *bivon inherited from Proto-Germanic *bibāną (shiver, quake).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*bibāną
Gloss
shiver, quake
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- beefaal Dutch, Flemish
- beven Dutch, Flemish
- beving Dutch, Flemish
- bibberen Dutch, Flemish
- *bʰeyh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *bibāną Proto-Germanic
- *bʰeyH- Proto-Germanic
- bäva Swedish
- beofian Old English
- bifian Old English
- bifa Old Norse
- beven Middle Dutch
- bēven Middle Dutch
- biben Old High German
- bibēn Old High German
- *bibēn gmw-pro
- *bivon Old Dutch
- beven Middle Low German
- bivon Old Saxon