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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I was thinking about the word "bid" as in "I bid you farewell." In this sense it has an irregular past form: "He bade me enter."
It made me wonder if it was related to German bitte (yes) and what the conjugation of the related verb ("bitten") was like. Sure enough, the past tense of bitten has lots of As in its various forms. "Er bat" etc https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bitten#German