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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
- Alternative form of bith
From Old English bēoþ, plural imperative form of bēon, from Proto-Germanic *beuþ, second-person plural imperative form of *beuną.
beth
- plural imperative of been
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Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
beth | beth pronounced with /β(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.
- (standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /beːθ/
- (colloquial) IPA(key): /beː/, /bɛ/
- Rhymes: -eːθ, -eː
beth
- what?
- beth bynnag (“whatever; anyway”)
- ta beth (“whatever; anyway”)
- dim, dim byd (“nothing”)
- pob dim, popeth (“everything”)
- rhywbeth (“something”)
- unrhyw beth (“anything”)
See peth (“thing”).
beth
- Soft mutation of peth.