Been

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See also: been, beeñ, be·en, and be- -en

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • Bään (eastern Moselle Franconian, except Westerwald)
  • Bein (Kölsch; Westerwald)

Etymology

From Old High German bein.

Pronunciation

Noun

Been n (plural Been, diminutive Beenche)

  1. (Ripuarian, western Moselle Franconian) leg
    Et es e Wonder, datt du met dä kurte Been su flögg loofe kanns.
    It’s a wonder that you can run so fast with those short legs.

East Central German

Alternative forms

Noun

Been

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) Bein n (“leg; bone”)

References

  • Ernst Göpfert: Dialectisches aus dem Erzgebirge, in: Neunundzwanzigster Bericht über die Progymnasial- und Realschulanstalt zu Annaberg, zu der Montag un Dienstag, den 18. und 19. März 1872 stattfindenden öffentlichen Prüfung ergebenst einladet der Director Prof. Friedrich Alfred Gilbert. Voranstehend: Dialectisches aus dem Erzgebirge. von Oberlehrer Ernst Göpfert, Annaberg, 1872, p. 15

German Low German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Saxon bēn, from Proto-West Germanic *bain, from Proto-Germanic *bainą. Cognate with German Bein, English bone. Compare the neuter noun sense "bones, skeleton" to the sense of the Gebein.

Pronunciation

  • (in many dialects) IPA(key): /bɛɪ̯n/

Noun

Been n (plural Been or Benen or Bener)

  1. (in many dialects, including Low Prussian) leg

Noun

Been n

  1. (in some dialects) bone as a material
  2. (in some dialects) an indiscriminate number of bones : a skeleton or skeletons

See also

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German bein, from Old High German bein, from Proto-West Germanic *bain.

Pronunciation

Noun

Been n (plural Been, diminutive Beenche)

  1. leg

Further reading

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German bein, from Proto-West Germanic *bain, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

Pronunciation

Noun

Been n (plural Been, diminutive Beenchen or Bengchen)

  1. leg

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Old Saxon bēn, from Proto-West Germanic *bain, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

Noun

Been

  1. leg

Saterland Frisian

Two Bene (1).
n Been (2.1).

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian bēn, from Proto-West Germanic *bain. Cognates include West Frisian bien and German Bein.

Noun

Been n (plural Bene)

  1. leg
Coordinate terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Low German bȫne (“ceiling”). Cognates include German Low German Böhn and Plautdietsch Bän.

Noun

Been m (plural Bene)

  1. ceiling
  2. attic
  3. hard palate

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “Been”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
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