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  1. Middle English, from Old English bycgan.

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  1. Early modern English also buye, by, bie, bye, from Middle English buyen, byen, bien, beyen, biggen, buggen, etc., from Anglo-Saxon bycgan (preterit bohte, past participle boht) = Old Saxon buggean = Gothic (Moesogothic) bugjan (preterit bauhta), buy; not found in the other Teutonic tongues; connections doubtful. Hence in comp. aby, and by perversion abide, q. v.

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  1. [OE. buggen, buggen, bien, AS. bycgan, akin to OS. buggean, Goth. bugjan.]

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