begripe

From Middle English begripen, bigripen, from Old English begrīpan (“to grip, seize, lay hold of; chide”), from Proto-West Germanic *bigrīpan. Equivalent to be- (“around, about”) +‎ gripe.

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈɡɹaɪp/

begripe (third-person singular simple present begripes, present participle begriping, simple past and past participle begriped)

1. (transitive) To lay hold of; apprehend; grip; grasp.
   • 1865, Dante Alighieri, The Comedy of Dante Allighieri. [sic]: Part I--The Hell:

     He, with his middle feet, begriped his paunch, And took the arms with the anterior; And then he bit both one and other cheek.

   • 1899, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Edward Strachey, William Caxton, Le morte Darthur:

     And as for this sword there shall never man begripe it at the handle but one, but he shall pass all other. In the name of God, said Percivale, I shall essay to handle it. So he set his hand to the sword, but he might not begripe it.

• begrip

begripe

1. inflection of begripen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive

From Middle Low German begripen.

begripe (imperative begrip, present tense begriper, passive begripes, simple past begrep or begreip, past participle begrepet, present participle begripende)

1. to grasp, understand, comprehend

• begripelse

• “begripe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “begripe” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Middle Low German begripen.

begripe (present tense begrip, past tense begreip, past participle begripe, passive infinitive begripast, present participle begripande, imperative begrip)

1. to grasp, understand, comprehend

• begripa

• “begripe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Frisian bigrīpa, from Proto-West Germanic *bigrīpan. Equivalent to be- +‎ gripe.

• IPA^(key): /bəˈɡripə/

begripe

1. to understand, to comprehend

Strong class 1
infinitive	begripe
3rd singular past	begriep
past participle	begrepen
infinitive	begripe
long infinitive	begripen
gerund	begripen n
auxiliary	hawwe
indicative	present tense	past tense
1st singular	begryp	begriep
2nd singular	begrypst	begriepst
3rd singular	begrypt	begriep
plural	begripe	begriepen
imperative	begryp
participles	begripend	begrepen

• “begripe”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011