bethatch

== English == === Alternative forms === bithecche (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English bithecchen, from Old English beþeċċan (“to cover; protect; cover over; conceal”), from Proto-West Germanic *biþakkjan, equivalent to be- +‎ thatch. Cognate with Dutch bedekken (“to cover”), German bedecken (“to cover”). More at its doublet bedeck. Alteration in vowel after Middle English perhaps due to thatch. === Verb === bethatch (third-person singular simple present bethatches, present participle bethatching, simple past and past participle bethatched) (now uncommon) (transitive) To cover with thatch; to thatch. (transitive, by extension, humorous, nonce word) To cover with hair.