different between bisk vs bist

English

Noun

bisk (plural bisks)

1. (sports) Alternative form of bisque (“extra turn”)
2. Alternative form of bisque (“kind of soup”)

See also

• wheat bisk

Anagrams

• KIBS

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *beid-ska, Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to split”). Compare Ancient Greek ???????? (pheídomai), Sanskrit ???? (bhid, “to break”), Latin findo (“split”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (beitan).

Noun

bisk m

1. small branch, twig

Related terms

• degë

English

Etymology

From Middle English bist, beest, best, from Old English bist ("(thou) art"; second person singular of b?on (“to be”)), from Proto-Germanic *biusi (“(thou) art”), equivalent to be +? -est. Cognate with West Frisian bist (“(thou) art”), Low German büst (“(thou) art”), German bist (“(thou) art”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

bist

1. (Britain dialectal, Bristol, West Country, Northern England) Originally used to form the second person singular of be, but can denote other present tense forms, such as: are, am, is
   • 1875, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch:

     Thee bist rayther too much a feelosofer, I be afeard, for me.

   • 1904, Henry Branch, Cotswold and vale:

     Lookee, thee bist purty, my love; lookee, thee bist purty: thee hast dove's eyes betwix thy locks; thy locks be like a flock o' ship fur thickedness.

   Where bist goin'.

   Where are you going?

   I bist goin' 'ome.

   I am going home

   How bist?

   How are you?

Related terms

• bin
• bisn't

Anagrams

• ITBS, ITBs, TBIs, bits, stib-, tibs

German

Etymology

From Old High German bist. Cognate to Middle Dutch bes, best, dialectal English bist, beest.

German bist has two sources:

• a form based on Proto-Indo-European *h?ésti (“(you) are (sg.)”)
• an initial b- that was added to the word under influence of verb forms based on Proto-Germanic *beun? (as in Old English beon)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?st/

Verb

bist

1. second-person singular present of sein

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• beest, best

Etymology

From Old English bist ("(thou) art"; second person singular of b?on (“to be”)), from Proto-Germanic *biusi (“(thou) art”), equivalent to been +? -est.

Verb

bist

1. second-person singular present indicative of been

Usage notes

This form is less common than art for the second-person singular.

Descendants

• English: bist, beest (archaic or dialectal)

Old English

Verb

bist

1. second-person singular present of b?on

Descendants

• Middle English: bist, beest, best
  • English: bist, beest (archaic or dialectal)

Wakhi

Etymology

From Tajik ???? (bist).

Numeral

bist

1. twenty

West Frisian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin b?stia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?st/

Noun

bist n (plural bisten, diminutive bistje or bistke)

1. animal, beast

Alternative forms

• beest

Derived terms

• leavehearsbistke

Further reading

• “beest”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yagnobi

Numeral

bist

1. twenty

Further reading

• Ronald Emmerick, Iranian, in Indo-European Numerals (1992, ?ISBN, edited by Jadranka Gvozdanovic), page 312