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語源

From be- +‎ witan.

発音

• IPA: /beˈwi.tɑn/

動詞

bewitan

1. to overlook; oversee, watch over; bewatch, superintend, preside, govern
   • 10th century, Vercelli Book:

     Ðū, ma[n], bewite þē sylfne

     You, man, watch over yourself.

2. (of people, institutions, affairs, etc.) to take charge of, watch over

Conjugation

派生した語

• Middle English: biwitien, biwiten, biwitten
  • English: bewit

参照

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bewitan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.