bě̄dìti

bě̄dìti Grammatical information: v. Accent paradigm: c

Page in Trubačev: II 56-57

Old Church Slavic:

běditi `force, persuade' [verb], běždǫ [1sg]

Russian:

bedít' (dial.) `spoil, vex' [verb]

Czech:

bíditi (Jungmann, Kott) `reduce to poverty, (se) torment oneself, suffer' [verb];

běditi (Jungmann, Kott) `reduce to poverty' [verb];

bídit se (dial.) `live in poverty' [verb]

Slovak:

biedit́ `live in poverty' [verb]

Old Polish:

biedzić `struggle' [verb]

Serbo-Croatian:

bijèditi `slander' [verb], bȉjedīm [1sg]

Bulgarian:

bedjá `accuse' [verb]

Indo-European reconstruction: bʰoidʰ-eie-

IE meaning: force

Certainty: +

Page in Pokorny: 117

Comments: It is very unlikely that Slavic *běditi `force' and Go. baidjan `id.' belong to different roots. Stang even includes these words in his "Sonderübereinstimmungen" (1972: 14). The meaning `persuade' is another indication that we are dealing with PIE *bʰoidʰ-. The question is whether denominative *běditi `reduce to poverty, live in poverty' ultimately continues a different root (see *bē̌dà).

Other cognates:

Gk. πείθω `persuade' [verb];

Go. baidjan `force' [verb];

OHG beitten `demand' [verb]