begalewen
Middle English
Etymology
From bi- + *galewen, probably related to Old English āgælwed (“astonished, disconcerted”), Old English āgelwan (“to astonish, stupify”).
Compare a-gælwed (“consternated, astonished”) and geal(-g) (“troubled, dismayed”)[1], from Proto-Germanic *gálx, *galg, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g(')hAlk(')h-, connected with Ancient Greek καλχαίνω (kalkhaínō, “to make purple”) << κάλχη (kálkhē, “purple”), later with a poetic sense of "be excited, ponder deeply."[2][3]
Verb
begalewen (third-person singular simple present begaleweth, present participle begalewende, begalewynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle begalewed)
- (transitive) To frighten.
- c. 1320, "Bevis of H." in Ellis Specim. (1811) II. 171
- That horse was swift as any swalowe / No man might that horse begallowe.
- c. 1320, "Bevis of H." in Ellis Specim. (1811) II. 171
Descendants
- English: begallow (unattested)
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “a-gælwed”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=config&morpho=0&basename=%5Cdata%5Cie%5Cgermet&first=466
- WP p. 540
- “begalewen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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