different between bye vs bay

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: bi, buy, by

Etymology 1

Variant form of by, from Old English b? (being near).

Noun

bye (plural byes)

1. The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.

   Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.

2. (cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
3. (obsolete) A dwelling.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gibson to this entry?)

4. (obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.

   • The Synod of Dort in some points condemneth, upon the by, even the discipline of the Church of England.

5. (card games) A pass.

Derived terms

• (cricket): leg bye

Etymology 2

Shortened form of goodbye.

Interjection

bye

1. (colloquial) Goodbye.

Derived terms

• tatty bye

Descendants

• ? Greenlandic: baj
• ? Faroese: bei

Translations

Etymology 3

Alternative forms.

Preposition

bye

1. Obsolete spelling of by

Noun

bye

1. Obsolete spelling of bee

Anagrams

• Bey, Eby, bey

Afrikaans

Noun

bye

1. plural of by

French

Etymology

From English bye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj/

Interjection

bye !

1. bye

   Allez bye ! À la revoyure.

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From English bye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj/

Interjection

bye

1. bye, goodbye

Synonyms

• alvida
• orevwar

Middle English

Noun

bye

1. A ring or torque; a bracelet.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:

     And Kynge Arthure gaff hir a ryche bye of golde; and so she departed.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²by?.?/

Noun

bye f or m (definite singular bya or byen, indefinite plural byer, definite plural byene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by byge

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bya, bøya, bøye

Etymology

From Dutch bui.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²by?.?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

bye f (definite singular bya, indefinite plural byer, definite plural byene)

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Derived terms

References

• “bye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Yola

Alternative forms

• buye

Etymology

From Middle English boye.

Noun

bye

1. boy

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?, IPA^(key): /be?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English be? (“berry”), as in be?b?am (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin b?ca (“berry”).

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. (obsolete) A berry.
2. Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
3. Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
4. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:

     both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes.

   • 1771, John Trumbull, On the Vanity of Youthful Expectations

     The patriot's honours and the poet's bays.

5. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
6. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.

Synonyms

• (Laurus nobilis): bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurel, bay tree
• (Garland symbolic of fame, victor): laurels

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.
2. A bank or dam to keep back water.

Synonyms

• (body of water): gulf

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From French baie, from Old French baé, masculine singular past participle of the verb baer, from Medieval Latin bad? (“I am open”). More at bevel, badinage.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

2. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
3. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
4. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
5. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
6. (rail transport) A bay platform.
7. A bay window.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

From Old French bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
2. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
3. (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

   • Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.

Derived terms

• at bay

Translations

Verb

bay (third-person singular simple present bays, present participle baying, simple past and past participle bayed)

1. (intransitive) To howl.

   • The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd.

2. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.

   to bay the bear
3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

Derived terms

• bay at the moon

Translations

Etymology 5

From French baie, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).

Adjective

bay (comparative more bay, superlative most bay)

1. Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).

Derived terms

• bay cat
• Bay Horse
• bay lynx
• En

Translations

Noun

bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

1. A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.

2. A horse of this color.
   • 1877, George Nevile, Horses and Riding (page 105)

     […] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.

Quotations

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

Translations

See also

• abeyance
• badinage
• baize
• daphne
• voe
• Wikipedia article on bays in geography
• Appendix:Colors
• Wikipedia article on bay, the horse colour/color

Anagrams

• Aby, YBA, aby

Anguthimri

Noun

bay

1. (Mpakwithi) barracouta

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Aphetic form of abay.

Noun

bay

1. an address to a male friend

Etymology 2

Compare balay.

Noun

bay

1. a house

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæi/

Noun

bay m (plural bayow)

1. kiss

Mutation

Synonyms

• amm, abm
• cussyn

Related terms

• amma, abma

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich

Declension

Guianese Creole

Etymology

From French bailler.

Verb

bay

1. to give

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bailler.

Verb

bay

1. to give

Synonyms

• ba
• ban

Hone

Noun

bay

1. dog

Further reading

• Anne Storch, Hone, in Coding Participant Marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages, edited by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño.

Noun

bay

1. rebozo

References

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía?^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 28

Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich, noble

Turkish

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic ????????? (b¹y¹ /bay/, “rich person, noble”), from Proto-Turkic *b?j (“rich, noble; many, numerous”).

The meaning “sir, gentleman” was coined during the language reforms in parallel to bey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?baj/

Noun

bay (definite accusative bay?, plural baylar)

1. (countable) gentleman
2. (title used for a man) Mr.

Declension

Usage notes

Used as a title, the word is usually capitalized and followed by a person's name, often his surname or full name (as in “Bay Ahmet ??k”). This is unlike the more traditional title bey, which is used after a person's name, most commonly just his given name (as in “Ahmet Bey”).

Synonyms

• bey
• beyefendi

Derived terms

• albay
• yarbay
• bayan

Adjective

bay (comparative daha bay, superlative en bay)

1. (dialectal, otherwise dated) rich, wealthy

Declension

Synonyms

• zengin (rich)
• varl?kl? (rich)

Antonyms

• yoksul (poor)
• fakir (poor)
• zü?ürt (poor)

References

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [??aj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??aj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??a(?)j??]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *p?r, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *par; cognates include Muong p?l, Bahnar p?r, Pacoh pár and Mon ??? (p?).

Verb

bay • (????, ????)

1. to fly (travel through the air)
2. to flutter (flap or wave quickly but irregularly)
3. to fly (travel very fast)
4. to fade away

Derived terms

Adverb

bay

1. with ease; in a fast-paced manner

Etymology 2

Noun

(classifier cái) bay • (????)

1. trowel

Etymology 3

See bây.

Alternative forms

• bây

Pronoun

bay

1. (informal) you (second-person plural)

Related terms

• mày

References

• "bay" in H? Ng?c ??c, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño (“cloth”), from Latin pannus.

Noun

bay

1. handkerchief
2. scarf

Derived terms

• bay cho?a ?e?e
• güex?oa bay

References

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?^[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 5