beth

• bet, beyt, beis

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

• enPR: bĕth, IPA^(key): /bɛθ/
• IPA^(key): /bɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛθ
• Rhymes: -ɛt

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

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

From Old English bēoþ, present plural of bēon (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *biunþi, third-person present plural of *beuną (“to be, become”).

• beþ

beth

1. plural present indicative of been

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.

• biþ, bith

beth

1. Alternative form of bith

From Old English bēoþ, plural imperative form of bēon, from Proto-Germanic *beuþ, second-person plural imperative form of *beuną.

• beþ

beth

1. plural imperative of been

• ·bed

• IPA^(key): /bʲeθ/

·beth

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

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

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

• (standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /beːθ/
  • (colloquial) IPA^(key): /beː/, /bɛ/
• Rhymes: -eːθ, -eː

beth

1. 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”).

• IPA^(key): /beːθ/

beth

1. Soft mutation of peth.