different between been vs beey

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b?n/
  • Homophone: bin
  • Rhymes: -?n
• (General American, particularly common in the Great Lakes, Midwest) IPA^(key): /b?n/
  • Homophone: Ben
  • Rhymes: -?n
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bi?n/
  • Homophone: bean
  • Rhymes: -i?n
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /b?n/, /b??n/

Verb

been

1. past participle of be
2. (obsolete) plural simple present of be
   • 1584, George Peele, The Arraignment of Paris, I, ii

     My love is fair, my love is gay,

     As fresh as been the flowers in May;

   • c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, II

     Where when men been, there's seldom ease;

   • 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, iii

     O Friar, those are faults that are not seen,

     Ours open, and of worse example been.
3. (Southern US) finite usage of be

   They been here since yesterday.

Noun

been

1. (Britain dialectal) plural of bee

References

Vaux, Bert and Scott Golder. 2003. The Harvard Dialect Survey: been. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Linguistics Department.

Anagrams

• Bene, NEbE, bene, eben, neeb

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch been, from Middle Dutch bêen, from Old Dutch b?n, from Proto-Germanic *bain?.

Noun

been (plural bene or beendere, diminutive beentjie)

1. leg
2. bone

Usage notes

• The plural beendere is used alternatively in the sense “bone”, especially collectively.

Derived terms

• penisbeen

Basque

Noun

been

1. genitive plural of be

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?n/
• Hyphenation: been
• Rhymes: -e?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bêen, from Old Dutch b?n, from Proto-West Germanic *bain, from Proto-Germanic *bain?.

Noun

been n (plural benen, diminutive beentje n)

1. leg, limb of a person, horse (other animals' would have poten) and certain objects (again many have poten)

2. (mathematics) side, leg

Usage notes

• The contemporary plural benen is derived from an analogy to other nouns with regular plurals. Originally, been was left unchanged in the plural; such use in preserved only in set phrases like op de been (“upright, standing, awake”).

Noun

been n (plural beenderen or benen, diminutive beentje n)

1. bone, constituent part of a skeleton.
2. (uncountable) bone, the chalky material bones are made of

Synonyms

• (bone): bot, knekel, knook

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: been

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

been

1. first-person singular present indicative of benen
2. imperative of benen

Anagrams

• bene

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

From Low German Been, from Middle Low German bên, from Old Saxon b?n.

Noun

been

1. leg

See also

• German Low German: Been

Finnish

Noun

been

1. genitive/accusative singular of bee

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch b?n, from Proto-West Germanic *bain, from Proto-Germanic *bain?.

Noun

bêen n

1. leg
2. foot
3. bone

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• bein (Limburgish)

Descendants

• Dutch: been
  • Afrikaans: been
• Limburgish: bein

Further reading

• “been”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “been”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle English

Etymology 1

From a conflation of Old English b?on and wesan, from Proto-Germanic *beun? and *wesan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewHeti and a conflation of *h?wéseti and *h?ésti.

Alternative forms

• beon, boen, bean, ben, be
• (from *h?ésti, rare) seen, sen

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /bø?n/
• IPA^(key): /be?n/

Verb

been (third-person singular simple present is, present participle beynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative was, past participle been)

1. to be
   • 1382, John Wycliffe, translation of the Bible (John 1:48)

   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: be; been (dialectal)
• Scots: be

Etymology 2

From Old French and Medieval Latin, from Arabic ????? (b?n, “ben tree”).

Noun

been

1. ben (moringa tree)

Descendants

• English: ben

References

• “b?n, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

From Old English b?on, nominative plural form of b?o, from Proto-Germanic *bij?niz, nominative plural form of *bij?.

Noun

been

1. plural of bee (“bee”)

Etymology 4

From Old English ?eb?on, past participle of b?on (“to be”); equivalent to y- +? be +? -en.

Alternative forms

• ybeen, ybe

Verb

been

1. past participle of been (“to be”)

Descendants

• English: been
• Scots: been

Etymology 5

From (with the -þ replaced with an -n leveled in from the past and subjunctive) Old English b?oþ, present plural of b?on (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *biunþi, third-person present plural of *beun? (“to be, become”).

Alternative forms

• be

Verb

been

1. plural present indicative of been (“to be”)

Usage notes

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.

Descendants

• English: been (obsolete as the plural)

Etymology 6

From Old English b?on, present subjunctive plural of b?on (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *biw?n, third-person present subjunctive plural of *beun? (“to be, become”).

Verb

been

1. plural present subjunctive of been (“to be”)

Descendants

• English: be
• Scots: be

Etymology 7

Noun

been (plural beenes or beenen)

1. Alternative form of bene (“bean”)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English ybeen, from Old English ?eb?on, past participle of b?on (“to be”).

Verb

been

1. past participle of be

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English bee, from Old English b?o, from Proto-Germanic *bij?.

Noun

been

1. bees

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From bee +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: b??i, IPA^(key): /?bi?i/

Adjective

beey (comparative more beey, superlative most beey)

1. (informal, rare) Reminiscent of or containing bees.
   • 1871, P.J. Malone, “Goethe and Frederica” in The Rural Carolinian II, page 252

     It was the sweetest April-time, / And beey-swarms humm’d thro’ the trees, / And Nature’s voice, in silver rhyme, / Received fresh cadence from the bees.

   • 1887, Ptolemy Houghton, Hatred Is Akin to Love, page 35

     Fell backwards into a soft, though rather waspy and beey, bed.

   • 1905, The Bee-Keepers’ Review XVIII, page 58

     [Sugar honey] has a peculiarly sweet, spicy, “beey” flavor that is simply delicious.

   • 2008, Muncy Christian, The Very Bloody Marys, page 190

     The buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey sound was back. In fact, it sounded even more buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey than it had before.

Translations

Kankanaey

Noun

beey

1. house