forbisen

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Definition von forbisen im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

To furnish with examples

An example; model; pattern

To give as an example

A proverb, byspel

A parable; fable

Etymologie

() From Middle English forbisen, forbison, forbysen, forbysne, forbus (“example”), from Old English forebȳsen (“example”), from fore- + bȳsen (“model, exemplar, pattern, parable, command”), from Proto-Germanic *būsniz (“command, precept”), from Proto-Germanic base *beudanan (“to ask, beg”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheudh- (“to be awake, perceive fully”). Cognate with Old Saxon am-busan (“a command, precept”), Gothic (ana-busns, “a command”), Old Norse bȳsn (“wonder, premonition”). More at bid.