beo – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of beo

Noun: beo
Gender:

Nominative

Singularbēo
Pluralbēon

Genitive

Singularbēon
Pluralbēona

Dative

Singularbēon
Pluralbēom; bēoum

Accusative

Singularbēon
Pluralbēon

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like beo

leo, beo, peo, seo, freo, tweo,

Etymology

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 bi̇̀tė, Latvian bite, Proto-Slavic *bьčela (Old Church Slavonic бьчела (bĭčela), Russian пчела́ (pčelá)), Proto-Celtic *bekos (Old Irish bech, Irish beach). See: Dutch Nouns 'bij', German Nouns 'Biene', Swedish Nouns 'bi', Latvian Nouns 'bite', Irish Nouns 'beach'.

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