bith

bith (plural biith)

1. fishing spear

   Synonym: biɛnh

• bɛ̈ny bith (“spear-chief”)
• ubith (“fishhook”)

• Roger Blench (2005) Dinka-English Dictionary‎, page 29

From Old Irish bith, from Proto-Celtic *bitus (compare Welsh byd).

• IPA^(key): /bʲɪh/, /bʲɪ/

bith m (genitive singular beatha)

1. (literary) world

• ar bith (“any, at all”)

• biþ, beth, bis, bes

From Old English biþ, third-person present singular of bēon (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *biuþi, third-person present singular of *beuną (“to be, become”).

bith

1. third-person singular present indicative of been

This form is less common than is except in southern dialects.

• English: bes, beeth (now obsolete or dialectal)
• Fingallian: bes
• Yola: beeth

From Proto-Celtic *bitus (compare Welsh byd).

• IPA^(key): /bʲiθ/

bith m (genitive betho or betha, nominative plural betha)

1. world
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 68^b9

     cia beith ar n‑acathar nech inna rétu inducbaidi in betha so, arnach·corathar i mmoth ⁊ machthad dia seirc ⁊ dia n‑accubur

     though it be that someone sees the glorious things of this world, that he may not be put in stupor and admiration by love for them and by desire for them

• Irish: bith
• →? Middle Welsh: byth
  • Welsh: byth

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /bʲiθʲ/

bith

1. inflection of is:
   1. third-person singular past subjunctive
   2. third-person singular future

• IPA^(key): /bʲiːθʲ/

bith

1. alternative spelling of bíth