béien

béien

1. inflection of béie:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɜɪən

From Middle High German biegen, from Old High German biogan, from Proto-West Germanic *beugan, from Proto-Germanic *beuganą. Cognate with German biegen, Dutch buigen, English bow.

The expected conjugation would be analogous to fléien or zéien. Regularized forms were probably influenced by related Middle High German böugen (German beugen), which would have yielded Luxembourgish *beeën. Additionally or alternatively, there may have been influence by etymology 2 below, since the two verbs overlapped in the context of wood production (branches and boards were scorched in order to make them flexible for bending).^[1]

béien (third-person singular present béit, past participle gebéit, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive) to bend
2. (reflexive) to be bent, to have a curved shape

• Bou

From Middle High German bæjen, from Proto-Germanic *bēaną. Cognate with regional German bähen.

béien (third-person singular present béit, past participle gebéit, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive, archaic) to roast, scorch