different between bye vs byre

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by byge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

Etymology

From Middle English bire, bier, byr, from Old English b?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Noun

byre (plural byres)

1. (chiefly Britain) A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
   • 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:

     It was here in the kitchen, in the passage,

     In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market-place [...]

   • 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, page 9 (2001 Perennial Edition):

     The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow byres and barns.

Translations

Anagrams

• Brey, Byer, Erby, yerb

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *buriz (“son”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by.re/

Noun

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. child, son, descendant; young man, youth

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *buriz (“hill, elevation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by.re/

Noun

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. mound

Etymology 3

From Proto-Germanic *buriz (“favourable wind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by.re/

Noun

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. strong wind, storm

Descendants

• Middle English: bir
  • English: birr

Etymology 4

From Proto-Germanic *burjaz (“opportunity”), related to Old English byrian (“to come up, occur”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by.re/

Noun

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. time, opportunity; occurrence

Derived terms

• ambyre (“favorable, fair”)

Etymology 5

Probably related to Old English b?r. Perhaps identical to the word for a farm or dwelling in German -büren, Dutch -buren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by?.re/

Noun

b?re n (nominative plural b?ru)

1. stall, shed, hut

Derived terms

• c?b?re m (“cow-byre, cow-shed”)

Descendants

• English: byre

Scots

Etymology

From Old English b?re, but possibly influenced in usage by Gaelic "bò" meaning a cow.

Noun

byre (plural byres)

1. A cattle shed or outhouse

Derived terms

• Byreman, cattleherd
• Byregraip, a dung fork.