bedelfan

== Old English == === Etymology === From be- +‎ delfan. Cognate with Old Saxon bidelvan, Old Frisian bidelva, Old High German bitelban. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /beˈdel.fɑn/, [beˈdeɫ.vɑn] === Verb === bedelfan to dig in and around; to bury, inter ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: bidelven Old Scots: bedelve === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “bedelfan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.