gebyrian

• ġebyriġan, ġebyrġan

From Proto-West Germanic *gaburjan, equivalent to ġe- +‎ byrian.

• IPA^(key): /jeˈbyr.jɑn/, [jeˈbyrˠ.jɑn]
• IPA^(key): /jeˈby.ri.ɑn/

ġebyrian

1. to happen
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Gyf þonne ǣfre gebyreð þæt þū þē ful hālne and ful trumne ongytst, and hæafst æalle þīne frēond myd þē, ǣġðer ge on mōde ge on līchaman, and on ðām ilcan worce and on ðām ylcan willum ðe ðē best lyst dōn, hweðer þū ðonne wille bēon āwiht blīðe?

     If then it ever happen that thou shalt find thyself full whole and full strong, and hast all thy friends with thee, both in mind and in body, and in that same work and in that same will which pleaseth thee best to do, wilt thou then be happy at all?

2. (of a person) have to do with, be involved in
3. to belong to
4. to be becoming or fit, to behove (chiefly impersonal, with dative subject)
   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

     Ǣlcum men ġebyrad, þe ǣniġne gōdne cræft hæfð, þæt hē ðone dō nytne ōðrum mannum.

     It becomes each person who has any good skill that he make that useful to other people.

• Middle English: ȝebürien
  • ⇒ Middle English: birrde, bürde
    • Scots: byrde, byrd, bird