It has been generally accepted that the Greek word θvατos and its kin are to be connected etymologically with a few scattered words in other Indo-European branches, as follows:

[An account is given of the German background of the present English dialect, and of the phonological, syntactic, and lexical peculiarities of the dialect. German influence is to be seen in the syntax and in that part of the vocabulary which represents ‘relational concepts’. In the sphere of ‘basic concepts’ the vocabulary is now almost free from German influence. One of the phonological peculiarities, viz. the treatment of r final or followed by a consonant, may suggest German influence, but this is not clear. Most of the peculiarities are disappearing under the influence of surrounding English dialects.]

The current definition of bebeodan is ‘to command’, of forbeodan ‘to forbid’.

There are two cases, however, where bebeodan translates Latin prohibere:

(1) In a manuscript of the eighth century, in the Old High German Glosses published by Steinmeyer and Sievers 1.26.9:

Arcentibus prohibentibus pipeotantem piuuariantem

(2) In the Old English version of the Benedictine Rule of the third decade of the eleventh century:

EETS 90.62.10:

from pam him pe beoϑbeboden he ne a quibus eum proibuerit non gedyrstlrece presumat

[Goth, l- is to be regarded as the product of an assimilation of fl- > -. By this we obtain wanting etymologies for words like Goth.liuhan etc.]

[The ending -mēs is attributed to an IE medio-passive formation, which, though not otherwise preserved, can be logically derived from the IE paradigm.]

[In OFr. words of the type mencie < moneta, peroindre < poroindre the e is a weakening of the o when adjacent to a liquid or nasal which tended to be syllabic. This phenomenon was more frequent in eastern dialects. The progressive changes of an o in this position, to judge from modern dialect forms, must have been poroindre > peroindre or paroindre > proindre. The last form, with zero grade of the vowel, was seldom written in the older texts because of conservatism in spelling.]

[Etymologies are offered for avali, canhos, goffo, migrarse, mucca, potiron.]