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Old English · verb

buan

Normalised būan

Part of speech
verb
Verb class
weak class 1
IPA
/ˈbuː.ɑn/
Syllables
ˈbuː · ɑn (2 syllables)
Modern English
inhabitdwell

Meaning

  1. to live or dwell

    Hē būde on Ēastenglum...

    He lived in East Anglia...

    The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  2. to inhabit, to occupy

    ... ne mæġ mon... meduseld būan.

    ... a man may not... occupy the mead-bench.

    c. 700 AD, Bēowulf, 3066-3067:

Conjugation

Conjugation of buan
PresentPast
Indicative
1st singular būebūde
2nd singular bȳstbūdest
3rd singular bȳþbūde
Plural būaþbūdon
Subjunctive
Singular būebūde
Plural būenbūden
Non-finite forms of buan
Form
Infinitive būan
Inflected infinitive būenne
Imperative singular bū
Imperative plural būaþ
Present participle būende
Past participle bȳnġebȳnbūnġebūn

All forms (17)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *būan, from Proto-Germanic *būaną. Cognate with Old Frisian būwa, bōwa (West Frisian bouwe), Old Saxon būan (Low German bugen), Old Dutch būwan (Dutch bouwen), Old High German būan (German bauen), Old Norse búa (Danish bo, Swedish bo, Norwegian Nynorsk bu, Faroese búgva), Gothic (bauan).

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