Be-standan

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

be-standan

Add: I. to surround :-- Ðá hǽþenan hine bestódon, Hml. S. 28, 104, II. to attend the dead, perform funeral rites for :-- Heó forðférde and Abraham hig bestód þá ealdan wísan mortua est, venitgue Abraham, ut plangeret et fleret eam, Gen. 23, 2. ) þá wíf behwurfon hire líc oþþæt heó bebyrged wæs, swylce hí for ðan cómon ꝥ hí þá fǽmnan bestódon, Hml. S. 10, 271. ꝥ ðá gegyldan cumon, and þ líc wurðlíce bestandan, and tó mynstre ferian, Cht. Th. 607, 20. [N. E. D. be-stand. O. H. Ger. pi-standan circumstare, custodire.] be-standan