English Explanatory Dictionary

bethatch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To cover with thatch; to thatch.
  2. To cover with hair.

Word forms

bethatch bethatches bethatching bethatched bithecche

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.

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