betide
verbEtymology
From Middle English bityden [and other forms]; from bi- (prefix forming verbs, usually with a completive, figurative, or intensive sense) + tyden (“to come about, happen, occur; to befall, become of, happen to (someone); to be the fate of (someone); to await (someone); to fare, get along”); tyden is derived from Old English tīdan (“to befall, betide, happen”), related to tīd (“time; season; hour”) (both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- (“to divide, share”) or its extended form *deh₂-y-, whence *dh₂ítis (“time”)) + -an (suffix forming the infinitive of most verbs). The English word is analysable as be- + tide (“(obsolete) to happen, occur”).
- inherited from bityden
Definitions
Often used in a prediction (chiefly in woe betide) or a wish
Often used in a prediction (chiefly in woe betide) or a wish: to happen to (someone or something); to befall.
- Why wayle we then? why weary we the Gods with playnts, / As if ſome euill were to her betight? / She raignes a goddeſſe now emong the ſaintes, / That whilome was the ſaynt of ſhepheardes light: / And is enſtalled nowe in heauens hight.
- Why, how now, countrymen! Why flock you thus to me in multitudes? What accident's betided to the Jews?
- More health and happines betide my liege, / Then can my care tunde tongue deliuer him.
Chiefly in the third person
Chiefly in the third person: to happen; to take place; to bechance, to befall.
- If he were dead what would betide of me.
- The death of my ſon betiding while my ſoul was under this anxiety, I thought of nothing but reſigning my dominions, and retiring for ever from the ſight of mankind.
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA