different between beg vs sue

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /b??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English beggen, assimilation from Old English *becgan, *bedcan, *bedican, syncopated variants of bedecian (“to beg”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *bedagô (“petitioner; requestor; beggar”), from *bed?, *bed? (“prayer; request”). Related to North Frisian b?dagi (“to pray”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (bidagwa, “beggar”), Old English biddan (“to ask”). More at bid, bead. See Norwegian Bokmål be (“beg, ask”).

Verb

beg (third-person singular simple present begs, present participle begging, simple past and past participle begged)

1. (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.

2. (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.

   Synonym: supplicate

   • [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5

     But that same day came Sam Tewkesbury to the Why Not? about nightfall, and begged a glass of rum, being, as he said, 'all of a shake' [...]

3. (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
4. (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).

   Antonym: set aside

5. (transitive, law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
   • a. 1612, John Harington, Epigrams

     Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.

Usage notes

This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

• beg the question
• beg to differ
• go begging
• soft begging

Translations

Noun

beg (plural begs)

1. The act of begging; an imploring request.

See also

• beggar

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (beg).

Noun

beg (plural begs)

2. A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

beg

1. (knitting) Abbreviation of beginning.
   • 2005, DRG Dynamic Resource, House of White Birches, Big Book of Knit Hats & Scarves for Everyone (page 34)

     Knit with MC until work measures 3 inches from beg.

Further reading

• beg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• GBE, GEB, Gbe, Geb, bge

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (beg).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?x/
• Hyphenation: beg

Noun

beg m (plural begs)

1. (historical) Alternative form of bei.

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag.

Noun

beg (Jawi spelling ???)

1. bag

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish bec, from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small”).

Adjective

beg (plural beggey, comparative loo, superlative sloo)

1. small

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (“ruler”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bê?/

Noun

b?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional) master, lord

Declension

Derived terms

• bekstvo
• bežanje
• prebeg

References

• “beg” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *b?g?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bé?k/

Noun

b??g m inan

1. run
2. getaway
3. escape
4. withdrawal
5. (phrase) flight

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Turkish bey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bé?k/

Noun

b??g m anim

1. bey (Turkish governor)

Inflection

Further reading

• “beg”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English beg.

Noun

beg (nominative plural begs)

1. request, an action of begging

Declension

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC b?æk?).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pe?k?/
• Tone numbers: beg⁸
• Hyphenation: beg

Adjective

beg (Sawndip form ?, old orthography beg)

1. (bound) white

Adverb

beg (Sawndip form ?, old orthography beg)

1. in vain; for nothing
2. for free; free of charge

English

Etymology

From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) ( > French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: Sioux, sou, Su, Sue, sew (etymology 2)

Verb

sue (third-person singular simple present sues, present participle suing, simple past and past participle sued)

1. (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
3. (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
4. (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.

5. (obsolete, transitive) To court.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.

   • And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III. iv:

     though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sue.

Derived terms

• sue for peace

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• EUS, SEU, UEs, ues, use

References

Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su??/, /su?e?/

Adjective

sue

1. small

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy/
• Homophones: su, suent, sues, sus, sut, sût
• Rhymes: -y

Verb

sue

1. inflection of suer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. feminine singular past participle of savoir

Anagrams

• eus, use, usé

Italian

Etymology

From Latin suae.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: su?e

Adjective

sue

1. his, her, its; plural of sua

Japanese

Romanization

sue

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?su.e/, [?s?u?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?su.e/, [?su??]

Verb

sue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of su?

Noun

sue

1. ablative singular of s?s

Middle English

Noun

sue

1. Alternative form of sowe

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: su?e

Verb

sue

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of suar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of suar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of suar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of suar

Tarantino

Pronoun

sue m (possessive, feminine soje)

1. his