b'

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "b"

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bˠ/ (before (fh)a, (fh)á, (fh)o, (fh)ó, (fh)u, (fh)ú)
  • IPA(key): /bʲ/ (before (fh)e, (fh)é, (fh)i, (fh)í)

Particle

b’

  1. apocopic form of ba
    B’fhearr liom cupán tae.
    I’d prefer a cup of tea.

Usage notes

  • This form is used before words beginning with a vowel or fh followed by a vowel, except not before the pronouns é, ea, í, iad.

Derived terms

Irish copular forms
simple copular forms
affirmative negative interrogative negative
interrogative
present/future
main clause is ní an nach
relative clause direct nach –
indirect ar, arbv
other subordinate clause gur, gurbv an nach
past/conditional
main clause ba, b’v níor, níorbhv ar, arbhv nár, nárbhv
relative clause direct ba, abv nár, nárbhv –
indirect ar, arbhv
other subordinate clause gur, gurbhv ar, arbhv nár, nárbhv
present subjunctive
– gura, gurabv nára, nárabv –
compound copular forms
base word present/future past/conditional
cá cár, cárbv cár, cárbhv
cé cér, cérbv cér, cérbhv
dá – dá mba, dá mb’v
de/do dar, darbv dar, darbhv
faoi faoinar, faoinarbv faoinar, faoinarbhv
i inar, inarbv inar, inarbhv
le lenar, lenarbv lenar, lenarbhv
má más má ba, má b’v
mura mura, murabv murar, murarbhv
ó (preposition) ónar, ónarbv ónar, ónarbhv
ó (conjunction) ós ó ba, ó b’v
trí trínar, trínarbv trínar, trínarbhv

v Used before vowel sounds

Mutation

Mutated forms of b'
radical lenition eclipsis
b' bh' mb'

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

Maltese

Alternative forms

  • bi (before a consonant cluster)
  • imb (in fixed expressions)

Etymology

From Arabic بِ (bi).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b/ (before a vowel, sonorant, or voiced obstruent)
  • IPA(key): /p/ (before a voiceless obstruent)

Preposition

b’

  1. with (chiefly an ingredient, means, concomitant, quality)
    Antonym: bla
  2. times, (multiplied) by
    erbgħa b’erbgħa jiġu sittax ― four times four equals sixteen
    għamel erbgħa b’erbgħa ― multiply four by four

Inflection

Inflected forms of b’
Personal-pronoun-
including forms 		singular plural
m f
1st person bija bina
2nd person bik bikom
3rd person bih biha bihom
Definite forms
Xemxin Qamrin
biċ- · bid- · bin-
bir- · bis- · bit- ·
bix- · biz- · biż- 		†bil-
†form is bl- before a vowel, h, or għ

See also

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p-/
  • Hyphenation: b'

Verb

b'

  1. Form of bu used before vowels and fh-

References

  • Colin Mark (2003) “bu”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 96

Yola

Verb

b'

  1. apocopic form of ba (“to be”)
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 86:
      Yith w'had any lhuck, oor naame wode b' zung,
      If we had any luck, our name would have been sung
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:
      Our eein wode b' mistern t' dearnt up ee skee.
      Our eyes would be dazzled to look up to the sky.

References

  • 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 86
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