- becweðere
- m (-es/-as) interpreter, translator
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
becweðere
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bequeath — (v.) O.E. becweðan to say, speak to, exhort, blame, also leave by will; from BE (Cf. be ) + cweðan to say, from P.Gmc. *kwithan, from PIE *gwet to say, speak. Original sense of say, utter died out 13c., leaving legal sense of transfer by will.… … Etymology dictionary
