bitan
Old Saxon
verb
Definitions
- to bite
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *bītaną (bite) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (split, break, cleave, separate, chop, break down), *bʰeyd- (split, break, cleave, separate, chop, break down).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰeyd-
Gloss
split, break, cleave, separate, chop, break down
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bit English
- bitter English
- fissile English
- fibra Latin
- findere, findō Latin
- fissio Latin
- fissiōnem Latin
- fissura Latin
- fistula Latin
- bisschen German
- fessacchiotto Italian
- beetje Dutch, Flemish
- bijten Dutch, Flemish
- bit Dutch, Flemish
- *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰinédti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰéydt Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeygʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *baitaz Proto-Germanic
- *baitidaz Proto-Germanic
- *baitijaną Proto-Germanic
- *baitislą Proto-Germanic
- *baitō Proto-Germanic
- *bitiz Proto-Germanic
- *bitraz Proto-Germanic
- *bitô Proto-Germanic
- *bitą Proto-Germanic
- *bītaną Proto-Germanic
- bit Norwegian Nynorsk
- bitan Old English
- bītan Old English
- भेद Sanskrit
- beizla Old Norse
- bita Old Norse
- biti Old Norse
- bitill Old Norse
- bitlaðr Old Norse
- bitr Old Norse
- bitull Old Norse
- bíta Old Norse
- bizan Old High German
- bīzan Old High German
- bitil Faroese
- 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *bītan Old Dutch
- bitter Middle Low German
- bītan Old Saxon
- *findō Proto-Italic
- bita Old Frisian
- bīta Old Frisian
- *beid-ska Proto-Albanian