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bist

See also: bîst and bīst

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Etymology edit

From Middle English bist, beest, best, from Old English bist ("(thou) art"; second person singular of bēon (“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”).

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bist

  1. (UK dialectal, Black Country, Bristol, West Country, Northern England) Used to form the second person singular of be.
    • 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?
    How bist?
    How are you?

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bist

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) second-person singular present of zijn

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Etymology edit

From Old High German bist. Cognate to Middle Dutch bes, best,[1] dialectal English bist, beest.

German bist has two sources:

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bist

  1. second-person singular present of sein
    Du bist nicht mein Sohn.
    You are not my son.

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  1. ^ A. van Loey, Schönfeld's Historische Grammatica van het Nederlands, 8. druk 1970, →ISBN; §147a
  2. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “bin”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

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bist

  1. first/second-person singular perfect of bies

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Etymology edit

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

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bist

  1. second-person singular present indicative of been

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

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  • English: bist, beest (archaic or dialectal)

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bist

  1. second-person singular present indicative of bēon

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bist

  1. second-person singular present indicative of wesan

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Etymology edit

Cognate with Persian بیست (bist).

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bist

  1. twenty

Wakhi edit

Etymology edit

From Tajik бист (bist).

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bist

  1. twenty

West Frisian edit

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Etymology 1 edit

From Old Frisian bist, second person singular indicative of wesa (“to be”). Cognate with English bist, German bist.

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bist

  1. second person singular indicative of wêze

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Ultimately from Latin bēstia.

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bist n (plural bisten, diminutive bistje or bistke)

  1. animal, beast
    De bisten binne fuort. ― The animals are gone.
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  • “beest”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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bist

  1. twenty

Further reading edit

  • Ronald Emmerick (1992) “Iranian”, in Jadranka Gvozdanović, editor, Indo-European Numerals, Mouton de Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 312
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