bee

A bee

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Origin

  • Image:Drinking Bee.jpg|thumb|A bee
  • From Middle English bee, from Old English bēo, from Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-.
  • Possibly from dialectal bene, been, bean, from Middle English been, bene, from Old English bēn ("prayer, request, petition, favour, compulsory service") from Proto-Germanic *bōniz ("prayer, request, supplication"). Thus a variant of obsolete ben and boon. Cognate with Danish bøn ("prayer"), Dutch ban ("curse"), German Bann ("ban"). More at ban.
  • From Middle English beeȝ, bie, bei, begh, beiȝe, bege, beah, bye, from Old English bēah, bēag, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz. beag, a learned borrowing.
  • Variant spellings.
  • From Middle English, from Old English be, from Latin be.
  • Probably from Old English bēah ("ring"). Compare bow.

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