bee
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English bee, from Old English bēo, from Proto-West Germanic *bijā, from Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-.
Noun
editbee (plural bees or (dialectal) been)
- A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
- 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
- His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Can there be a more formall, and better ordered policie, divided into so severall charges and offices, more constantly entertained, and better maintained, than that of Bees?
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 17:
- 1657, Samuel Purchas, “The Excellency of Bees”, in A Theatre of Politicall Flying-Insects. […], London: […] R. I. for Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, page 1:
- Bees are the moſt excellent of all Inſects vvhatſoever, and expreſſe both vvorth and vvonder in all their vvaies: […]
- 2012 March 31, “Subtle poison”, in The Economist:
- Bees pollinate many of the world’s crops—a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone.
Synonyms
editHypernyms
editDerived terms
edit- Africanized bee
- Africanized honey bee
- alkali bee
- antibee
- apple-bee
- apple bee
- artificial bee colony
- bee assassin
- bee ball
- bee balm
- bee baw babbity
- bee beard
- bee bearding
- bee beetle
- bee bite
- bee-brained
- bee-bread
- bee bread
- beebrush
- bee candy
- beedom
- bee-eater
- beefarm
- bee farm
- beefarming
- bee farming
- bee fly
- bee glue
- bee gum
- bee hawkmoth
- beeherd
- bee-hive
- beehive
- beehood
- bee hoon
- bee hotel
- beehouse
- bee hummingbird
- bee in one's bonnet
- beeish
- beekeeper
- beekind
- beeless
- beelike
- beeline
- bee-line
- beeling
- bee louse
- beely
- beemageddon
- beeman
- beemaster
- bee moth
- beemother
- bee orchid
- bee pirate
- beepocalypse
- beeproof
- bee purple
- bee sage
- beeskep
- bee's knees
- bee sting
- bee-stung
- beeswarm
- beeswax
- beeswing
- Beetown
- bee tree
- bee up one's ass
- bee-utiful
- bee vacuum
- bee violet
- bee wine
- bee wolf
- beewort
- beey
- beeyard
- blood bee
- blue-cheeked bee-eater
- bumble bee
- bumble-bee
- bumblebee
- busy as a bee
- busy bee
- carder bee
- carpenter bee
- chronic bee paralysis virus
- Chronic bee paralysis virus
- common carder bee
- coppice mining bee
- cuckoo bee
- digger bee
- dog-bee
- European bee-eater
- follow the bee
- green bee-eater
- have a bee in your bonnet
- hive bee
- honey bee
- honeybee
- horse-bee
- humble-bee
- Italian bee
- Kashmir bee hawkmoth
- ke-mo sah-bee
- killer bee
- leafcutter bee
- leaf-cutter bee
- leaf-cutting bee
- like a bee in clover
- little green bee-eater
- long-faced miner bee
- mason bee
- meat bee
- mining bee
- mumble-bee
- nameless bee disease
- nanobee
- orchid bee
- plasterer bee
- poppy bee
- put the bee on
- queen bee
- queen bee acid
- quilting bee
- resin bee
- sand bee
- southeastern blueberry bee
- spotted bee balm
- squash and gourd bee
- squash bee
- stingless bee
- sting like a bee
- sweat bee
- upholsterer bee
- violet carpenter bee
- vulture bee
- Wallace's giant bee
- worker bee
- working bee
Related terms
edit- Beowulf (possibly)
Translations
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See also
edit- apiology, apiculture, beekeeping
- (castes): worker bee, worker, queen bee, queen, drone
- (behavior): beehive, eusocial, hive, swarm, tremble dance, waggle dance
- (anatomy): corbicula, sarothrum, scopa, sting
- (substances): ambrosia, beebread, beeswax, honey, honeycomb, propolis, royal jelly
- apitherapy
- (hives): apiary, beehouse, skep, Langstroth hive,
- (equipment): super, queen-cage, bee escape, duplet, honey extractor, topbar, bee smoker, apidictor
- (diseases): chalkbrood, colony collapse disorder, foulbrood, nosema, sacbrood, stonebrood, varroa
Etymology 2
editPossibly from dialectal bene, been, bean (“help given by neighbours”), from Middle English been, bene (“neighbourly help, prayer, petition, request, extra service given by a tenant to his lord”),[1][2] from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, petition, favour, compulsory service”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“prayer, request, supplication”). Thus a variant of obsolete ben (“prayer; petition”) and doublet of boon. Cognate with Danish bøn (“prayer”), Dutch ban (“curse”), German Bann (“ban”). More at ban.
Noun
editbee (plural bees)
- A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.
- geography bee
- A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
- 1856, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Recollections of a Lifetime:
- The cellar […] was dug by a bee in a single day.
- 1973, Alan Skeoch, Tony H. Smith, Canadians and their society, page 139:
- There was but little variation in types of buildings in the pioneer period: house, church, store, barn and mill were usually much alike except in size, and a raising bee was the ordinary means of their erection.
- 2011 September 21, Tim Blanning, “The reinvention of the night”, in Times Literary Supplement:
- Particularly resistant, for example, in many parts of northern Europe was the “spinning bee”, a nocturnal gathering of women to exchange gossip, stories, refreshment and – crucially – light and heat, as they spun wool or flax, knitted or sewed.
Derived terms
editTranslations
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Etymology 3
editFrom Middle English beeȝ, bie, bei, begh, beiȝe, bege, beah, bye, from Old English bēah, bēag, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz. Doublet of beag, a learned borrowing; and of bagel.
Noun
editbee (plural bees)
- (obsolete) A ring or torque; a bracelet.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Caxton, Book 7, Chapter xxxv:
- And kyng Arthur gaf her a ryche bee of gold and soo she departed
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 16:
- ...restoring unto the world much gold richly adorning his Sword, two hundred Rubies, many hundred Imperial Coynes, three hundred golden Bees, the bones and horseshoe of his horse enterred with him...
Etymology 4
editVariant spellings.
Verb
editbee
- Obsolete spelling of be.
- 1604, Reverend Cawdrey, Table Aleph:
- held that a ‘Nicholaitan is an heretike, like Nicholas, who held that wiues should bee common to all alike.’
- (obsolete) past participle of be; been
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 19, page 8:
- His Lady sad to see his sore constraint, / Cride out, Now now Sir knight, shew what ye bee / Add faith vnto your force, and be not faint: / Strangle her, els she sure will strangle thee.
Etymology 5
editFrom Middle English [Term?], from Old English be, from Latin be (the name of the letter B).
Noun
editbee (plural bees)
- The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
- 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
- "The ee-vee-ee-ar-en-oh-ee-ell-blank-bee-ell-oh-ess-ess-oh-em-blank-en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar is especially dee-ee-ell-eye-cee-eye-oh-you-ess." Our friends thanked the spelling bee for his help and then he buzzed off.
Derived terms
editTranslations
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See also
edit- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
Etymology 6
editProbably from Old English bēah (“ring”). Compare bow.
Noun
editbee (plural bees)
- (nautical, usually in the plural) Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through.
Synonyms
editReferences
edit- ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2012 March 4 (last accessed), archived from the original on 16 June 2012
- ^ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bee%5B3%5D
Anagrams
editAfar
editPronunciation
editVerb
editbée (autobenefactive beeté)
- (transitive) to take
- (transitive) to take away
- (transitive, + l-case) to overcome
- (transitive, + l-case) to be angry with
Conjugation
editConjugation of bee (type II verb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1st singular | 2nd singular | 3rd singular | 1st plural | 2nd plural | 3rd plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
m | f | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
perfective | V-affirmative | béeh | beytéh | béeh | beytéh | beynéh | beyteeníh | beeníh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
N-affirmative | bée | beyté | bée | beyté | beyné | beytén | béen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
negative | mábeyinniyo | mábeyinnito | mábeyinna | mábeyinna | mábeyinnino | mábeyinniton | mábeyinnon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
imperfective | V-affirmative | beyáh | beytáh | beyáh | beytáh | beynáh | beytaanáh | beyaanáh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
N-affirmative | beyá | beytá | beyá | beytá | beyná | beytán | beyán | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
negative | mábeya | mábeyta | mábeya | mábeyta | mábeyna | mábeytan | mábeyan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
prospective | V-affirmative | béeliyoh béeyyoh |
béelitoh béettoh |
béeleh | béeleh | béelinoh béennoh |
béelitoonuh béettoonuh |
béeloonuh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
N-affirmative | béeliyo béeyyo |
béelito béetto |
béele | béele | béelino béenno |
béeliton béetton |
béelon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
conjunctive I | V-affirmative | béyuh | béyuh | béyuh | béyuh | béyuh | beytóonuh | beyóonuh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
N-affirmative | béyu | béyu | béyu | béyu | béyu | beytón | beyón | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
negative | bée wáyuh | bée wáytuh | bée wáyuh | bée wáytuh | bée wáynuh | bée waytóonuh | bée wóonuh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
conjunctive II | V-affirmative | beyánkeh | beytánkeh | beyánkeh | beytánkeh | beynánkeh | beytaanánkeh | beyaanánkeh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
N-affirmative | beyánke | beytánke | beyánke | beytánke | beynánke | beytaanánke | beyaanánke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
negative | bée wáankeh | bée waytánkeh | bée wáankeh | bée waytánkeh | bée waynánkeh | bée waytaanánkeh | bée wáankeh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
jussive | affirmative | béyay | béyay | béyay | béyay | béyay | beytóonay | beyóonay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
negative | bée wáay | bée wáytay | bée wáay | bée wáytay | bée wáynay | bée waytóonay | bée wóonay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
past conditional |
affirmative | beyinniyóy | beyinnitóy | beyinnáy | beyinnáy | beyinninóy | beyinnitoonúy | beyinnoonúy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
negative | bée wanniyóy | bée wannitóy | bée wannáy | bée wannáy | bée wanninóy | bée wannitoonúy | bée wanninoonúy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
present conditional I |
affirmative | béek | beyték | béek | beyték | beynék | beyteeník | beeník | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
negative | bée wéek | bée wayték | bée wéek | bée wayték | bée waynék | bée wayteeník | bée weeník | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
consultative | affirmative | beyóo | beynóo | imperative | affirmative | béy | béya | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
negative | mabeyóo | mabeynóo | negative | mábeyin | mábeyina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
-h converb | -i form | -k converb | -in(n)uh converb | -innuk converb | infinitive | indefinite participle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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béyah | béyi | béyak | beyínnuh | beyínnuk | beyíyya | beyináanih | beyináan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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References
edit- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “bee”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Äiwoo
editVerb
editbee
- (intransitive) to grow
References
edit- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
Aukan
editEtymology
editNoun
editbee
References
edit- Aukan-English Dictionary (SIL)
Dumbea
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbee
References
edit- Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
- Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
Estonian
editNoun
editbee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbee
- The template Template:Latn-def does not use the parameter(s):
t=bee
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
Usage notes
edit- Speakers often use the corresponding forms of b-kirjain (“letter B, letter b”) instead of inflecting this word, especially in plural.
Declension
editInflection of bee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | bee | beet | |
genitive | been | beiden beitten | |
partitive | beetä | beitä | |
illative | beehen | beihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | bee | beet | |
accusative | nom. | bee | beet |
gen. | been | ||
genitive | been | beiden beitten | |
partitive | beetä | beitä | |
inessive | beessä | beissä | |
elative | beestä | beistä | |
illative | beehen | beihin | |
adessive | beellä | beillä | |
ablative | beeltä | beiltä | |
allative | beelle | beille | |
essive | beenä | beinä | |
translative | beeksi | beiksi | |
abessive | beettä | beittä | |
instructive | — | bein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
editFula
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).
Particle
editbee (Pular)
- it must, it is necessary that
- iggey yimbe bee bonnii taariinde nde no feewi.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Dialectal variants
editSee also
editReferences
edit- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
Hadza
editPronunciation
editPronoun
editbee f pl (masc. bami, masc. plural bii, fem. bôko)
- they (fem. or mixed gender)
Related terms
editHungarian
editEtymology
editAn onomatopoeia.
Pronunciation
editInterjection
editbee
See also
editFurther reading
edit- bee in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editOf imitative origin
Interjection
editbee
- baa (sound of a sheep)
- 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Agricultural Topics 2.1.7, (The spelling "be" is also read in this passage[1]):
- nec multo secus nostri ab eadem voce, sed ab alia litera. vox earum non me, sed bee sonare videtur.
References
editFurther reading
edit- “bee”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bee in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Mandinka
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbee
Manx
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Irish bíad (“food”). Cognate with Irish bia and Scottish Gaelic biadh.
Noun
editbee m (genitive singular bee, plural beeghyn)
Derived terms
edit- bee ny jeeghyn (“ambrosia”)
- bee millish (“sweetmeat, sweet”)
- bee moddee (“dog food”)
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editbee
- inflection of ve:
Mutation
editManx mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bee | vee | mee |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old English bēo, from Proto-West Germanic *biju, from Proto-Germanic *bijō.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /beː/
- (Early Middle English) IPA(key): /bøː/
Noun
edit- A bee (insect that collects pollen)
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Summoner's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 1693–1696:
- Right so as bees out swarmen from an hyve, / Out of the develes ers ther gonne dryve / Twenty thousand freres on a route / And thurghout helle swarmed al aboute...
- Just like bees swarm from a hive / Out of the devil's arse there were driven / Twenty thousand friars on a rout / And throughout hell they swarmed all about...
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “bẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-24.
Navajo
editPronunciation
editPostposition
editbee
- with, by means of, by means of it
Inflection
editOld Irish
editVerb
editbee
Romanian
editInterjection
editbee
References
editSan Juan Guelavía Zapotec
editNoun
editbee
References
edit- López Antonio, Joaquín, Jones, Ted, Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía[3] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 25
Saterland Frisian
editEtymology
editFrom Old Frisian bēthe, from Proto-Germanic *bai (“both”) + *sa (“the”). Cognates include West Frisian beide and German beide.
Pronunciation
editDeterminer
editbee
Pronoun
editbee
Usage notes
edit- When used pronominally referring to two people (rather than objects or animals), the plural beeën is used.
References
editSwahili
editPronunciation
editInterjection
editbee
- Alternative form of abee
Tetum
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
Noun
editbee
- water (clear liquid H₂O)
Võro
editNoun
editbee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
Inflection
editThis noun needs an inflection-table template.
Yola
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English by, be, from Old English bi, from Proto-West Germanic *bī. Cognates include English by and Scots by.
Alternative forms
editPreposition
editbee
Etymology 2
editVerb
editbee
- Alternative form of ba (“to be”)
- 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, lines 15[2]:
- Maa bee haghed i more caar an angish than Ich."
- May be upset in more care and hardship than I."
- 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, lines 13[2]:
- Wu canna gow bee chapaal gaat,
- We cannot go to the chapel gate
- Alternative form of ba (“are”)
- 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, lines 1[2]:
- Haar wee bee dhree yola mydes,
- Here we are three old maids,
- Alternative form of ba (“was”)
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 21-23[1]:
- Ye pace——yea, we mai zei, ye vaste pace whilke bee ee-stent owr ye londe zince th'ast ee-cam,
- The peace——yes, we may say the profound peace—which overspreads the land since your arrival,
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 25
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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