Been

• Bään (eastern Moselle Franconian, except Westerwald)
• Bein (Kölsch; Westerwald)

From Old High German bein.

• IPA^(key): /beːn/

Been n (plural Been, diminutive Beenche)

1. (Ripuarian, western Moselle Franconian) leg

   Et es e Wonder, datt du met dä kurte Been su flögg loofe kanns.

   It’s a wonder that you can run so fast with those short legs.

• Baa

Been

1. (Erzgebirgisch) Bein n (“leg; bone”)

• Ernst Göpfert: Dialectisches aus dem Erzgebirge, in: Neunundzwanzigster Bericht über die Progymnasial- und Realschulanstalt zu Annaberg, zu der Montag un Dienstag, den 18. und 19. März 1872 stattfindenden öffentlichen Prüfung ergebenst einladet der Director Prof. Friedrich Alfred Gilbert. Voranstehend: Dialectisches aus dem Erzgebirge. von Oberlehrer Ernst Göpfert, Annaberg, 1872, p. 15

• Ben
• (in other dialects) Bein
• (alternate plural spellings) Beenen, Beener
• been, beyn (New Saxon Spelling)

From Old Saxon bēn, from Proto-West Germanic *bain, from Proto-Germanic *bainą. Cognate with German Bein, English bone. Compare the neuter noun sense "bones, skeleton" to the sense of the Gebein.

• (in many dialects) IPA^(key): /bɛɪ̯n/

Been n (plural Been or Benen or Bener)

1. (in many dialects, including Low Prussian) leg

Been n

1. (in some dialects) bone as a material
2. (in some dialects) an indiscriminate number of bones : a skeleton or skeletons

• Knaken, Knake
• Knoken
• beenen, beene (verb)

From Middle High German bein, from Old High German bein, from Proto-West Germanic *bain.

• IPA^(key): /peːn/

Been n (plural Been, diminutive Beenche)

1. leg

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From Old High German bein, from Proto-West Germanic *bain, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

• IPA^(key): /beːn/
  • Rhymes: -eːn

Been n (plural Been, diminutive Beenchen or Bengchen)

1. leg

From Old Saxon bēn, from Proto-West Germanic *bain, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

Been

1. leg

• IPA^(key): /beːn/
• Hyphenation: Been
• Rhymes: -eːn

From Old Frisian bēn, from Proto-West Germanic *bain. Cognates include West Frisian bien and German Bein.

Been n (plural Bene)

1. leg

• Íerm (“arm”)

Borrowed from Middle Low German bȫne (“ceiling”). Cognates include German Low German Böhn and Plautdietsch Bän.

Been m (plural Bene)

1. ceiling
2. attic
3. hard palate

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “Been”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN