bheidh- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	bheidh-
DEFINITION:	To trust, confide, persuade. Derivatives include bide, fiancé, and infidel. 1. Probably Germanic bdan, to await (< “to await trustingly, expect, trust”). abide, abode, from Old English bdan,* to wait, stay. 2. fiancé, fiducial, fiduciary; affiance, affiant, affidavit, confidant, confide, confident, defiance, defy, diffident, from Latin fdere, to trust, confide, and fdus, faithful. 3. Suffixed o-grade form bhoidh-es-. federal, federate; confederate, from Latin foedus* (stem foeder-), treaty, league. 4. Zero-grade form bhidh-. faith, fay³, fealty, fideism, fidelity; infidel, perfidy, from Latin fids,* faith, trust. (Pokorny 1. bheidh- 117.)


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