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Old English · noun

beo

Normalised bēo

Part of speech
noun, feminine
Declension
weak n-stem
IPA
/be͜oː/
Syllables
be͜oː (1 syllable)
Modern English
bee

beo1 · noun · feminine

Senses

  1. bee

Declension · weak n-stem

Declension of beo
SingularPlural
Nominative bēobēon
Accusative bēonbēon
Genitive bēonbēona
Dative bēonbēombēoum

beo2 · verb · inflected form

Senses

  1. inflection of bēon:; first-person singular indicative

  2. inflection of bēon:; singular subjunctive

  3. inflection of bēon:; singular imperative

  4. Inflected form of bēon

All forms (5)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bijā, from Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- (“bee”). Cognate with Old Frisian bē (West Frisian bij), Old Saxon bīa (Middle Low German bīe), Dutch bij, Old High German bīa, bini (German Biene, dialectal Beie), Old Norse bý (Danish and Swedish bi). The Indo-European root is also the source of Lithuanian bi̇̀tė, Latvian bite, Proto-Slavic *bьčela (Old Church Slavonic бьчела (bĭčela), Russian пчела́ (pčelá)), Proto-Celtic *bekos (Old Irish bech, Irish beach).

From Proto-Germanic *biumi (“am”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to become, be”).

Descendants

bee

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