beo

beo

1. Obsolete spelling of bev.

beo

1. myna

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

• “beo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bʲoː/^[1][2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bʲɔː/^[3]

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

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

• Alternative plural form: beodha
• Alternative comparative forms: beocha (Cois Fharraige), beoichte (Ulster)

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

beo m (genitive singular beo, nominative plural beo)

1. living thing
2. life
3. livelihood
4. quick (sensitive flesh)

• beatha f (“life; biography; living, livelihood; food, sustenance”)

beo

1. analytic present subjunctive of beoigh (“to animate”)

beo m (genitive singular beo, nominative plural beonna)

1. Alternative form of breo (“brand, torch; glow”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “beo”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “beo”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “beo”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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

beo

1. first-person singular present indicative of beare

• boe

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]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbe.oː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbe.o/,

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

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

• beātus

• “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

beo

1. Alternative form of bee

• IPA^(key): /be͜oː/

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

• bēom, bīom

bēo (West Saxon)

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

From Proto-West Germanic *bijā, from Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- (“bee”). Cognate with Old Frisian bē (West Frisian bij), Old Saxon bīa (Middle Low German bīe), Dutch bij, Old High German bīa, bini (German Biene, dialectal Beie), Old Norse bý (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).

• bīo, bī

bēo f (nominative plural bēon)

1. bee

Weak:

• Middle English: bee, be, beo, bey
  • English: bee
  • Fingallian: bee
  • Scots: bee, be, beye, bie, bea
  • Yola: been (plural)

• Bēowulf

beo

1. Alternative form of béo

• bijȇl, bȉo (Ijekavian, dialectal)
• bȇl (dialectal)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bělъ.

• IPA^(key): /bêo/

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

1. white
2. blank
3. blanched

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

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key):
• (Huế) IPA^(key):
• (Saigon) IPA^(key):

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(classifier con) beo • (豹, 𤣄, 𧴋)

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

   Synonym: báo