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Old English · verb

gebiegan

Normalised ġebīeġan

Part of speech
verb
Verb class
weak class 1
IPA
/jeˈbi͜yː.jɑn/
Syllables
je · ˈbi͜yː · jɑn (3 syllables)
Modern English
inflectcurve

Meaning

  1. to bend or curve

  2. to turn (to or away from something)

    Marcus sē godspellere be godes dihte ġefōr to Aegipta lande and þǣr lǣrde þæt folc and to fulluhte ġebiġde frām þām fūlan hæþensċype.

    Mark the Evangelist went to Egypt by God's order and there taught its people and turned its people towards baptism and away from foul heathenism.

    late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints
  3. to humiliate, subdue

  4. to inflect

    Ealle naman...bēoþ ġebīgede on fīf declinungum.

    All nouns...are inflected in five declensions.

    c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice

Conjugation

Conjugation of gebiegan
PresentPast
Indicative
1st singular ġebīeġeġebīeġde
2nd singular ġebīeġestġebīeġstġebīeġdest
3rd singular ġebīeġeþġebīeġþġebīeġde
Plural ġebīeġaþġebīeġdon
Subjunctive
Singular ġebīeġeġebīeġde
Plural ġebīeġenġebīeġden
Non-finite forms of gebiegan
Form
Infinitive ġebīeġan
Inflected infinitive ġebīeġenne
Imperative singular ġebīeġ
Imperative plural ġebīeġaþ
Present participle ġebīeġende
Past participle ġebīeġed

All forms (16)

Etymology

ġe- + bīeġan

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