| 1 | Old English | besingan | to sing about, charm, enchant, bewail |
| 2 | Old English | be- | a productive prefix usually used to form verbs... |
| 3 | Old English | hrōpan | to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl; to cry... |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | hrōpan | to cry out, to call, to shout |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | hrōpaną | to cry out, call, shout |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |