beita
Norwegian Nynorsk
/²bæɪtɑ/
pronu-note
Definitions
- graze eat grass from a pasture
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse beita (bait, cause to bite, food, let graze, feed, make bite, incite, hunt, rest).
Origin
Old Norse
beita
Gloss
bait, cause to bite, food, let graze, feed, make bite, incite, hunt, rest
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
休
Emoji
🪤
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *baitijaną Proto-Germanic
- *baitō Proto-Germanic
- bete Swedish
- baite Middle English
- bayte Middle English
- bayten Middle English
- beita Old Norse
- beter Old French
- betan, bētan Middle Dutch