See also: BEO, béo, beò, and beó

Breton

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Adjective

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beo

  1. Obsolete spelling of bev.

Indonesian

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Noun

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beo

  1. myna

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In Indonesia, the word beo is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to psittacines, as opposed to actual myna birds.

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish béo (alive),[4] from Proto-Celtic *biwos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (alive), from *gʷeyh₃- (to live). Compare Welsh byw.

Adjective

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beo (comparative beo or beocha)

  1. alive
  2. active
  3. lively
  4. (broadcasting) live
  5. live (being in a state of ignition; burning)
    Synonym: dearg
Declension
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Declension of beo
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative beo bheo beo;
bheo2
vocative bheo beo
genitive beo beo beo
dative beo;
bheo1
bheo beo;
bheo2
Comparative níos beo
Superlative is beo

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms
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Adverb

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beo

  1. (in a negative sentence) for the life of one
    Níl a fhios agam beo.
    I don’t know for the life of me

Noun

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beo m (genitive singular beo, nominative plural beo)

  1. living thing
  2. life
  3. livelihood
  4. quick (sensitive flesh)
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Declension of beo (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative beo beo
vocative a bheo a bheo
genitive beo beo
dative beo beo
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an beo na beo
genitive an bheo na mbeo
dative leis an mbeo
don bheo
leis na beo
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  • beatha f (life; biography; living, livelihood; food, sustenance)

Verb

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beo

  1. analytic present subjunctive of beoigh (to animate)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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beo m (genitive singular beo, nominative plural beonna)

  1. Alternative form of breo (brand, torch; glow)
Declension
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Declension of beo (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative beo beonna
vocative a bheo a bheonna
genitive beo beonna
dative beo beonna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an beo na beonna
genitive an bheo na mbeonna
dative leis an mbeo
don bheo
leis na beonna

Mutation

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Mutated forms of beo
radical lenition eclipsis
beo bheo mbeo

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 55
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 44
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 73
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “béo”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.o/
  • Rhymes: -ɛo
  • Hyphenation: bè‧o

Verb

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beo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of beare

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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Perhaps from Proto-Italic *dwejos, whence Latin bonus (good) (from Proto-Italic *dwenos). See bonus for more info.

De Vaan (2008) casts doubt on this etymology.[1]

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Verb

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beō (present infinitive beāre, perfect active beāvī, supine beātum); first conjugation

  1. to bless
  2. to gladden
  3. to enrich (with)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “beō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 70
  • beo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • beo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

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Noun

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beo

  1. Alternative form of bee

Old English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

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Verb

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bēo (West Saxon)

  1. inflection of bēon:
    1. first-person singular indicative
    2. singular subjunctive
    3. singular imperative

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

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Noun

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bēo f (nominative plural bēon)

  1. bee
Declension
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Weak:

Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Middle English: bee, be, beo, bey
    • English: bee
    • Fingallian: bee
    • Scots: bee, be, beye, bie, bea
    • Yola: been (plural)
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Old Irish

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Verb

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beo

  1. Alternative form of béo

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Mutation of beo
radical lenition nasalization
beo beo
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
mbeo

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bělъ.

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Adjective

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bȅo (Cyrillic spelling бе̏о, definite bȇlī, comparative bèljī)

  1. white
  2. blank
  3. blanched

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Colors in Serbo-Croatian · boje / боје (layout · text)
     bijelбијел, beoбео      sivсив, sinjiсињи      crnцрн
             crvenцрвен, rumenрумен              narandžastнаранџаст, narančastнаранчаст; smeđсмеђ, braonбраон              žutжут; žutжут
             zelenзелен              zelenзелен             
             tirkizanтиркизан, cijanцијан; tirkizanтиркизан              plavплав              modarмодар
             ljubičastљубичаст; modarмодар, indigoиндиго              ljubičastљубичаст, magentaмагента; ljubičastљубичаст              ružičastружичаст, rozaроза

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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From Late Proto-Vietic *pɛːw (leopard), from Middle Chinese (MC paewH, “leopard”), probably through a Tai language. Doublet of báo.

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Noun

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(classifier con) beo (, 𤣄, 𧴋)

  1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) a leopard, a jaguar or a cheetah
    Synonym: báo

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