The Be- words

Everyone should know most of these 50 and the 30 or more that I added in the comments. And remember, he only mentioned in the writ a few words like belittle. He was going for the less known ones.

AnWulf

50 Words with the Most Whimsical Prefix
by Mark Nichol
The prefix be- has a variety of interesting roles in language:

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/50-words-with-the-most-whimsical-prefix

They likely sound old to you because we don't use them much ... which is a shame.

It would behoove us all to know these words. Why should we benim ourselves of the wynn (joy) of brooking them. One might say that they are a bit of the bequest bequeathed to us by our forefathers.

Next month will be Yule Month and time to bedeck our homes when we bestir ourselves to bewry our houses with lights to bedazzle our neighbors.

LOL ... kind of fun.

I learned a new one this morning! ... behight (noun and verb) ... promise, vow ... also intend (intent), intrust, command.

I behight to brook more be- words and more often!

I left this off ... for behight; it is behight, past is behight, pp is behight or behoten.

In case you're wondering why it isn't behight, behote, behoten, it is because behight was the past tense! ... The verb was behot(en) ... behote, behight, behoten. Oh well ...

I wonder if a guy is bestubbled before he is bewhiskered? (Spell check didn't underline bestubbled!). I'm definitly bestubbled. If I don't shave soon, I'll be bewhiskered.

Here is another be- word:

beken
To make known; reveal, admit, confess.
To deliver.
To commit or commend to the care of.
To commit.
To admit as possessor.
To acquaint; instruct.

More be- words:

beknow - to realize, be aware of, know, recognize, understand, acknowledge, own, confess
byspel: I went bolt into his dressing-room, not beknowing he was in it

bestead - adj. - placed, situated, located;
verb. - replaced, take the place of, to place (in peril), help, profit, avail

unbeknown(st) - without the knowledge of, unknown to

unbespeak - to cancel, to annul, to unsay: withdraw, retract