Old English · noun

beaw

Normalised bēaw

Part of speech: noun, masculine
Declension: strong a-stem
IPA: /bæ͜ɑːw/
Syllables: bæ͜ɑːw (1 syllable)
Modern English: gadfly

Meaning

gadfly

Declension

Declension of beaw
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bēaw	bēawas
Accusative	bēaw	bēawas
Genitive	bēawes	bēawa
Dative	bēawe	bēawum

All forms (6)

bēaw
bēawas
bēawes
bēawa
bēawe
bēawum

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bauw (“hornet; horsefly”), cognate with West Frisian bau (“hornet”), dialectal Dutch bauw (“hornet, horsefly”), German Low German Bau (“horsefly, gadfly”).

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