See beon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "been"
},
"expansion": "Middle English: been, be, bean, ben, beon, boen, seen, sen\nEnglish: be; been (dialectal)\nScots: be\nYola: ba, b', bee, be",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Middle English: been, be, bean, ben, beon, boen, seen, sen\nEnglish: be; been (dialectal)\nScots: be\nYola: ba, b', bee, be"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*beun"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *beun",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*beuną",
"4": "",
"5": "to be"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *beuną (“to be”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*bʰew-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*wesaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wesaną",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₂wes-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *beun, from Proto-Germanic *beuną (“to be”), related to būan (“to dwell”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bʰuH-. The past tense forms are from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (from which also wesan), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bēon",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "irregular",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ang-conj",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "bēon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "bēonne",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "bēo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bist",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "biþ",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "bēoþ",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "bēo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bēon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bēo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bēoþ",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bēonde",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bēon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ġebēon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bīon",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "bēon"
},
"expansion": "bēon",
"name": "ang-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "bēon<i>"
},
"name": "ang-conj"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Let the one who wishes to be good call to the one who is always good so that he [the good one] will make him [the wisher] good.",
"text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"On the Greater Litany\"\nSē ðe gōd bēon wile, clypiġe tō ðām þe ǣfre is gōd, þæt hē hine gōdne ġewyrċe.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Then he said, \"Do you know what a person is?\" So I said, \"I know it's a soul and a body.\"",
"text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of The Consolation of Philosophy\nÞā cwæþ hē, \"Wāst þū hwæt mann sīe?\" Þā cwæþ iċ, \"Iċ wāt þæt hit biþ sāwol and līchama.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Again he said, \"I will be with you on all days, until the ending of this world,\" who liveth and reigneth with the Almighty Father and the Holy Ghost ever to eternity. Amen.",
"text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"On the Lord's Ascension\"\nEft hē cwæð, \"Iċ bēo mid ēow eallum dagum, ōð þisre worulde ġeendunge,\" sēðe lyfað and rīxað mid þām Ælmihtiġan Fæder and ðām Hālġum Gāste ā on ēċnysse. Āmen.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "All praise will be sung at the end.",
"text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Passion of the Blessed Stephen Protomartyr\"\nǢlċ lof bið on ende ġesungen.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "We'll be with you wherever you go.",
"text": "Blickling Homilies, \"St. Andrew\"\nWē bēoþ mid þē swā hwæder swā þū færest.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to be; exist"
],
"id": "en-beon-ang-verb-x4QO9LCr",
"links": [
[
"be",
"be"
],
[
"exist",
"exist"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "18 10 29 29 3 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to become"
],
"id": "en-beon-ang-verb-rV000xq8",
"links": [
[
"become",
"become"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/be͜oːn/"
}
],
"word": "beon"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.",
"name": "nonlemma"
}
],
"etymology_text": "See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bēon",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "bīon",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "noun form",
"head": "bēon"
},
"expansion": "bēon",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "18 10 29 29 3 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 7 35 35 2 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "bēo"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of bēo:",
"accusative/genitive/dative singular"
],
"id": "en-beon-ang-noun-2iRCk5MU",
"links": [
[
"bēo",
"beo#Old_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"form-of",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "18 10 29 29 3 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 7 35 35 2 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "bēo"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of bēo:",
"nominative/accusative plural"
],
"id": "en-beon-ang-noun-UpNhRTFL",
"links": [
[
"bēo",
"beo#Old_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"form-of",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/be͜oːn/"
}
],
"word": "beon"
}
{
"categories": [
"Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"Old English irregular verbs",
"Old English lemmas",
"Old English non-lemma forms",
"Old English noun forms",
"Old English suppletive verbs",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Old English verbs",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "been"
},
"expansion": "Middle English: been, be, bean, ben, beon, boen, seen, sen\nEnglish: be; been (dialectal)\nScots: be\nYola: ba, b', bee, be",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Middle English: been, be, bean, ben, beon, boen, seen, sen\nEnglish: be; been (dialectal)\nScots: be\nYola: ba, b', bee, be"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*beun"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *beun",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*beuną",
"4": "",
"5": "to be"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *beuną (“to be”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*bʰew-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*wesaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wesaną",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₂wes-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *beun, from Proto-Germanic *beuną (“to be”), related to būan (“to dwell”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bʰuH-. The past tense forms are from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (from which also wesan), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bēon",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "irregular",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ang-conj",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "bēon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "bēonne",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "bēo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bist",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "biþ",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "bēoþ",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "bēo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bēon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bēo",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bēoþ",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bēonde",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bēon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ġebēon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bīon",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "bēon"
},
"expansion": "bēon",
"name": "ang-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "bēon<i>"
},
"name": "ang-conj"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Let the one who wishes to be good call to the one who is always good so that he [the good one] will make him [the wisher] good.",
"text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"On the Greater Litany\"\nSē ðe gōd bēon wile, clypiġe tō ðām þe ǣfre is gōd, þæt hē hine gōdne ġewyrċe.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Then he said, \"Do you know what a person is?\" So I said, \"I know it's a soul and a body.\"",
"text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of The Consolation of Philosophy\nÞā cwæþ hē, \"Wāst þū hwæt mann sīe?\" Þā cwæþ iċ, \"Iċ wāt þæt hit biþ sāwol and līchama.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Again he said, \"I will be with you on all days, until the ending of this world,\" who liveth and reigneth with the Almighty Father and the Holy Ghost ever to eternity. Amen.",
"text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"On the Lord's Ascension\"\nEft hē cwæð, \"Iċ bēo mid ēow eallum dagum, ōð þisre worulde ġeendunge,\" sēðe lyfað and rīxað mid þām Ælmihtiġan Fæder and ðām Hālġum Gāste ā on ēċnysse. Āmen.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "All praise will be sung at the end.",
"text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Passion of the Blessed Stephen Protomartyr\"\nǢlċ lof bið on ende ġesungen.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "We'll be with you wherever you go.",
"text": "Blickling Homilies, \"St. Andrew\"\nWē bēoþ mid þē swā hwæder swā þū færest.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to be; exist"
],
"links": [
[
"be",
"be"
],
[
"exist",
"exist"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to become"
],
"links": [
[
"become",
"become"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/be͜oːn/"
}
],
"word": "beon"
}
{
"categories": [
"Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"Old English non-lemma forms",
"Old English noun forms",
"Old English suppletive verbs",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.",
"name": "nonlemma"
}
],
"etymology_text": "See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bēon",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "bīon",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "noun form",
"head": "bēon"
},
"expansion": "bēon",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "bēo"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of bēo:",
"accusative/genitive/dative singular"
],
"links": [
[
"bēo",
"beo#Old_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"form-of",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "bēo"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of bēo:",
"nominative/accusative plural"
],
"links": [
[
"bēo",
"beo#Old_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"form-of",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/be͜oːn/"
}
],
"word": "beon"
}
Download raw JSONL data for beon meaning in Old English (6.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.