Proto-Germanic: *bil=
Meaning: merciful, mild, gentle
Old English: bile-wit (bele-, bil-wit) `merciful, mild, gentle, simple', bile-hwīt `simple, sincere'
Old Saxon: un-bilithunga `Unförmigkeit, ungestaltes Ding'
Old High German: bili- 1. Glied von PN; bil-lūh `ebenmässig, angemessen, geziemend'
Middle High German: bilwiʒ, bilwīʒ m., n., f. `Kobold'; un-bil 'ungemäss'