betan

Verb

 * 1) defend
 * 2) survive
 * 3) hope/depend on (something)
 * 1) hope/depend on (something)

Etymology
From, from , derived from.

Verb

 * 1)  to improve
 * 2) * c. 900, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
 * "ang"

- Þā þing þe hē unfulfremed ġemētte, mid heora fultume hē þā rihte and bētte.


 * 1) * 11th century, "Æcerbot Charm"
 * "ang"

- Hēr is sēo bōt, hū þū meaht þīne æcras bētan ġif hīe nyllaþ wel weaxan oþþe þǣr hwelċ unġedēfe þing on ġedōn biþ on drȳ oþþe on lyblāce.


 * 1) to fix, repair
 * 2) * early 11th century, Wulfstan, "Larspell"
 * "ang"

- Uton lufian ūre ċirican, for þon hēo biþ ūre friðiġend and werġend on Dōmes Dæġe. And wyrċen wē simle bryċġe and þā bētan.


 * 1) * c. 900, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
 * "ang"

- On þisse ċirican ǣrest þā hālgan lārēowas ongunnon samnian and singan and ġebiddan and mæssesang dōn and menn lǣran and fulwian, oþ þæt sē cyning tō ġelēafan ġeċierred wæs and māran lēafnesse onfēngon ofer eall tō lǣrenne and ċirican tō timbriġenne and tō bētenne.


 * 1) * c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
 * "ang"

- Corrigō: Iċ bēte sume lēase bōc oþþe iċ styriġe sumum stuntum menn.


 * 1) to atone or compensate for
 * 2) * c. 899,, Psalm 36:9
 * "ang"

- Þā þe yfel dōþ and þæt ne bētaþ, hīe bēoþ āwyrtwalode of eorðan.


 * 1) to make or attend to a fire or a lamp
 * 2) * c. 900,, translation of the Dialogues of Gregory
 * "ang"

- Sume nihte, þā þā hē wel ǣr ārās tō bētenne þā lēoht þe wǣron nēah þǣre dura, and þā stōd hē on triewenre hlǣdre under þām lēohtfæte and ontende and ġebētte þæt lēoht, þā stōd þǣr ofdūne on þǣre flōre sanctus Petrus sē ēadega apostol on hwītum hræġlum, and þus cwæþ tō him, "Þū ġefēra, for hwon ārise þū swā hraðe?"