bode

Etymology 1

Verb from Middle English boden, from Old English bodian (“announce, foretell”), from Proto-Germanic *budōną (“to proclaim, announce, lere, instruct”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, perceive fully”). See bid. Noun from Middle English bod, from Old English bod, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“message, offer”). Since 1740 also a shortening of forebode.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
2. (intransitive, followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.

noun

1. An omen; a foreshadowing.
   c. 1380s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Fowles The oule eek, that of dethe the bode bringeth.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bod, from Old English bod (“a bidding”), from Proto-Germanic *budą (“a bidding, offer”). Cognate with Swedish bud, Dutch bod, Icelandic boð, Faroese boð, Norwegian Nynorsk bod, Norwegian Bokmål bud. Compare also Old Saxon gibod, German Gebot. See bid.

noun

1. (obsolete or dialect) A bid; an offer.

Etymology 3

From Middle English bode, from Old English boda (“messenger, forerunner”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *budô (“messenger”). Cognate with Dutch bode (“messenger, harbinger”), German Bote (“messenger”).

noun

1. A herald; a messenger.

Etymology 4

From Middle English bod, bode, bade, baide, partially a clipping of Middle English abod (“a stopping”), and partially continuing Old English bād (“a waiting, expectation”), from Proto-West Germanic *baidu, from Proto-Germanic *baidō.

noun

1. A stop; a halting; delay.

Etymology 5

Inflected form of bide.

verb

1. simple past of bide