búi

See also: bui, Bui, BUI, buí, bùi, Bùi, Búi, bụi, and buì

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *būô.

Noun

búi m (genitive búa)

  1. dweller, inhabitant
  2. neighbour
  3. (law) a neighbour acting as a juror

Declension

Declension of búi (weak an-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative búi búinn búar búarnir
accusative búa búann búa búana
dative búa búanum búm búnum
genitive búa búans búa búanna

Derived terms

  • búa (“to live, dwell, inhabit, reside”)

Descendants

  • Norwegian Nynorsk: -bu
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: -bu
  • Old Swedish: -boe
    • Swedish: bo
  • Old Danish: -bōi
    • Danish: -bo
      • Norwegian Bokmål: -bo

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “búi”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 78; also available at the Internet Archive

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *puːlʔ.

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cái) búi • (𧸻)

  1. tuft

Verb

búi • (𧸻)

  1. to make a tuft
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