gebyrian

== Old English == === Alternative forms === ġebyriġan, ġebyrġan === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *gaburjan, equivalent to ġe- +‎ byrian. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /jeˈbyr.jɑn/, [jeˈbyrˠ.jɑn] IPA(key): /jeˈby.ri.ɑn/ === Verb === ġebyrian to happen late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies (of a person) have to do with, be involved in to belong to to be becoming or fit, to behove (chiefly impersonal, with dative subject) c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: ȝebürien ⇒ Middle English: birrde, bürde Scots: byrde, byrd, bird