bae
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Syncopic form of babe or baby. Notably, it is sometimes incorrectly linked to the unrelated Danish word bæ (“poop”). Sometimes claimed to derive from “before anyone else”, a possible backronym.
NounEdit
bae (plural baes)
- (slang) Darling (term of endearment).
- 2013, "Jack", "Jack & Jill: On High School Relationships", The Torch (St. John's University), Volume 91, Issue 5, 28 August 2013, page 9:
- And if you actually want to see your bae – you know, like in person – You[sic] better set aside some of your refund check to pay for the $26 train ticket to a school that lingers outside of the tri-state area.
- 2014, Laken Howard, "Pillow Talk: Let's talk about V-day", The Current (entertainment insert of The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University), 13 February 2014, page 3:
- Your newsfeed gets clogged with statuses like “Happy Valentine’s Day to my bae! I’ve loved you so much ever since we first met three months, eight days, 11 hours and 27 minutes ago!”
- 2014, "How Steamy Is Your PDA?", Seventeen, June/July 2014, page 98:
- A fresh pic of you and your bae on vacay together? Who wouldn't “like” that?!?
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bae.
- Synonyms: babe, baby, darling, dear, love, sweetheart, loved one, significant other, special someone
- 2013, "Jack", "Jack & Jill: On High School Relationships", The Torch (St. John's University), Volume 91, Issue 5, 28 August 2013, page 9:
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bae (plural baes)
Etymology 3Edit
From Old French bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form Old French baier, abaier.
VerbEdit
bae (third-person singular simple present baes, present participle baeing, simple past and past participle baed)
- (intransitive) To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.
- c. 1598, Shakespeare, William, Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, scene 3, lines 70:
- He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.
- c. 1608, Shakespeare, William, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1, lines 10:
- ...the ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats.
AnagramsEdit
BislamaEdit
ParticleEdit
bae
- Alternative form of bambae
MarshalleseEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (phonetic) IPA(key): [pˠɑːɛ], (enunciated) [pˠɑ ɛ]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /pˠæɰjɛj/
- Bender phonemes: {bahyey}
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
bae
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from English pie, from Middle English pye, pie, probably from Latin pīca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests).
NounEdit
bae
- a pie
ReferencesEdit
PijinEdit
EtymologyEdit
ParticleEdit
bae
- Future tense marker
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /baːɨ̯/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /bai̯/
- Rhymes: -aːɨ̯
Etymology 1Edit
From English bay, from French baie.
NounEdit
bae m (plural baeau)
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form..
VerbEdit
bae
- Alternative form of bai
MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
bae | fae | mae | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further readingEdit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bae”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
ZhuangEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /pai˨˦/
- Tone numbers: bae1
- Hyphenation: bae
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Tai *pajᴬ (“to go”). Cognate with Thai ไป (bpai), Northern Thai ᨻᩱ (pai), Khün ᨻᩱ (pai), Lao ໄປ (pai), Lü ᦺᦔ (ṗay) and ᦺᦗ (pay), Tai Dam ꪼꪜ, Shan ပႆ (pǎi), Aiton ပႝ (pay), Bouyei bail.
VerbEdit
bae (Sawndip forms 𭆛 or 丕 or 批 or 䢙 or 贝 or 𫨰, 1957–1982 spelling bəi)
- to go
- to walk
- to operate; to run
- to spend; to use
- to remove; to get rid of
- to be lost (from one's possession)
- (of a liquid) to lose; to leak (gas)
- (of a firearm) to go off accidentally; to discharge accidentally
- to deviate
- (euphemistic) to pass away
Derived termsEdit
ParticleEdit
bae (Sawndip forms 𭆛 or 丕 or 批 or 䢙 or 贝 or 𫨰, 1957–1982 spelling bəi)
- Used after a verb to indicate removal of an object.
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
bae (1957–1982 spelling bəi)
Etymology 3Edit
Compare Cantonese 批 (pai1, “to plaster”).
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VerbEdit
bae (1957–1982 spelling bəi)