From Middle Bronze Age picture of a house by acrophony, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”). Doublet of beta.
beth (plural beths)
From Old English bēoþ, present plural of bēon (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *biunþi, third-person present plural of *beuną (“to be, become”).
beth
The usual plural form of been is aren in the North, been in the Midlands, and beth in the South; sind also existed, especially early on, but was not the predominant form in any area.
From Old English biþ, with the vowel of the infinitive leveled in.
beth
From Old English bēoþ, plural imperative form of bēon, from Proto-Germanic *beuþ, second-person plural imperative form of *beuną.
beth
·beth
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
beth | beth pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
mbeth |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Originally pa beth (“which thing”) with the soft mutation of peth (“thing”) after pa (“which”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis.
beth
See peth (“thing”).
beth
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
peth | beth | mheth | pheth |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |