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
-
to live or dwell
Hē būde on Ēastenglum...
He lived in East Anglia...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -
to inhabit, to occupy
... ne mæġ mon... meduseld būan.
... a man may not... occupy the mead-bench.
c. 700 AD, Bēowulf, 3066-3067:
Conjugation
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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