beth

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Middle English • Old Irish • Welsh

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Енглески

Систем

ен+нг=енг

Alternative forms

• bet
• beyt
• beis

Etymology

From Middle Bronze Age picture of a house by acrophony, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”). Дублети of beta

Pronunciation

• enPR: bĕth, МФА^(кључ): /bɛθ/
• МФА^(кључ): /bɛt/
• Риме: -ɛθ
• Риме: -ɛt

Noun

beth (plural beths)

1. The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁
2. The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב
3. The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ

Translations

Aramaic and Hebrew letter

• Aramaic: בית m (beθ)
• Catalan: bet (ca) f
• Finnish: bet (fi)
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• Hebrew: בֵּית (he) f (bet)
• Italian: bet (it) m or f
• Yiddish: בית m (beys)

Phoenician letter

• Catalan: bet (ca) f
• Finnish: bet (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: bet (it) m or f

Syriac letter

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܒܝܬ m (beθ)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Catalan: bet (ca) f
• Finnish: bet (fi)

See also

• Додатак:Хебрејски алфабет

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Стари Енглески bēoþ, present plural of bēon (“to be”), from Пра-Германски *biunþi, third-person present plural of *beuną (“to be, become”).

Alternative forms

• beþ

Verb

beth

1. plural present indicative of been

Usage notes

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.

Etymology 2

From Стари Енглески biþ, with the vowel of the infinitive leveled in.

Alternative forms

• biþ, bith

Verb

beth

1. Alternative form of bith

Etymology 3

From Стари Енглески bēoþ, plural imperative form of bēon, from Пра-Германски *beuþ, second-person plural imperative form of *beuną.

Alternative forms

• beþ

Verb

beth

1. plural imperative of been

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ·bed

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): /bʲeθ/

Verb

1. third-person singular past subjunctive of at·tá

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
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.

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Welsh

Etymology 1

Originally pa beth (“which thing”) with the soft mutation of peth (“thing”) after pa (“which”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis.

Alternative forms

• be’ (colloquial)
• pa beth (literary)

Pronunciation

• (standard, colloquial) МФА^(кључ): /beːθ/
  • (colloquial) МФА^(кључ): /beː/, /bɛ/
• Риме: -eːθ, -eː

Pronoun

beth

1. what?

Etymology 2

See peth (“thing”).

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): /beːθ/

Noun

beth

1. Soft mutation of peth.