beus

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Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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beus

  1. second-person singular present indicative of beure

Esperanto

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Verb

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beus

  1. conditional of bei

French

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Noun

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beus f

  1. plural of beu

Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbʲe.us], [ˈbʲeu̯s]

Adverb

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beus

  1. still (up to a time)
    • 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. 91b10
      Aní as·berinn cosse, is ed as·bǽr beus .i. derchoíniud du remcaisin Dǽ dínni ón.
      What I used to say up to now, I will say still, namely this is the despair of us for a providence of God.

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: beós, bós

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
beus beus
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
mbeus
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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beus m

  1. trade
  2. art
  3. rent, revenue, tax
  4. fornication
  5. bottle
  6. belly

Etymology 2

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From Old Irish bés, from Proto-Celtic *banssus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-.

Noun

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beus f (genitive singular beusa, plural beusan)

  1. moral qualities or manners, whether good or bad, virtue
  2. behaviour, deeds, custom, conduct
  3. amiability
Derived terms
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Etymology 3

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From English bass.

Noun

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beus f (genitive singular beusa, plural beusan)

  1. bass viol

Mutation

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Mutation of beus
radical lenition
beus bheus

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.