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Old English Bebeodan and Forbeodan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Luise Haessler
Luise Haessler*
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Brooklyn College
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Extract

The current definition of bebeodan is ‘to command’, of forbeodan ‘to forbid’.

There are two cases, however, where bebeodan translates Latin prohibere:

(1) In a manuscript of the eighth century, in the Old High German Glosses published by Steinmeyer and Sievers 1.26.9:

Arcentibus prohibentibus pipeotantem piuuariantem

(2) In the Old English version of the Benedictine Rule of the third decade of the eleventh century:

EETS 90.62.10:

from pam him pe beoϑbeboden he ne a quibus eum proibuerit non gedyrstlrece presumat

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Research Article
Information
Language , Volume 11 , Issue 3-Part1 , September 1935, pp. 211 - 215
Copyright
Copyright © 1935 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Elis Wadstein, Kleinere altsächsische Sprachdenkmäler 107.4: Norden und Leipzig, Soltau, 1899.

2 Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen 147.

3 The translations of the Bible passages are from the Revised Version.

4 Madden translates: ‘fore-ordered’.

5 Hearne remarks in the Glossary 649 : ‘forbede, forbid, sed pag. 484. idem quod commanded valere videtur. ‘