## Meanings
1. To offer to pay a particular price for something, especially at an auction.
2. An offer of a particular amount of money to buy something.
3. To make a serious effort to win or achieve something.

## Examples
- She bid two hundred dollars for the painting.
- His bid for the antique clock was the highest.
- The city is bidding to host the next Olympic Games.

## Derived Forms
- autobid
- beadle
- biddability
- biddable
- biddance
- bidworthy
- counterbid
- cuebid
- forbid
- megabid
- misbid
- outbid

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *gʷʰedʰ-
- Root: bidden
- Root: *biddjan
- Root: *bidjaną

## Etymology
From Middle English bidden, from Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”), from Proto-West Germanic *biddjan, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Conflated with Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”) (see Etymology 2 below). Compare West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden ("to pray"), German bitten, Danish bede, Norwegian Bokmål be.

## AI Etymology
Bid comes from Middle English bidden, from Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”), from Proto-West Germanic *biddjan, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Conflated with Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”) (see Etymology 2 below). Compare West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden ("to pray"), German bitten, Danish bede, Norwegian Bokmål be.

## Topics
- Money & Finance

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