ANGLO-SAXON ROOTS. 405 
In order to attempt something like order and 
connexion, we will now select for our notice the 
Anglo-Saxon root buan, bude gebiin, to dwell, 
inhabit; because we have referred to the word 
“bye” already. Bye as we have seen is a place 
of abode; and though it also occurs in the Anglo- 
Saxon language, has not been retained in its 
dialects, so much so as in the Anglo-Danish dis- 
tricts; therefore, we have referred it to the 
Danish, in which it is still of frequent occurrence. 
From the Anglo-Saxon form of this root as byan, 
byde, gebyden, we still retain a derivative abide, 
abode. Hence, the abstract noun “ abode,” from 
this form is exactly synonymous with the simple 
form “bye,” from which it has been derived. 
Besides the words already quoted, we have 
directly from this form—*“ bye-laws,” laws made 
in courts baron, courts leet; or by companies and 
corporations, for their special use and protection. 
There is also “bye word,” now used only as 
a term of reproach, but formerly a common word 
in a bye, or habitation of a lord or baron among 
his numerous retainers and dependants, or a 
common word in a small town—town’s talk— 
now-a-days, dignified with the classical name of 
scandal, as if it were only the besetting sin of 
the learned. 
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