bue

bue

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Beothuk.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Beothuk terms

• güe
• buö
• buöi
• guö
• güei
• buei

From Vulgar Latin *boem for Latin bovem, accusative singular of bōs.

bue m (plural bues)

1. bull
2. ox

• “bue” in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥uːə]

From Old Norse bogi, from Proto-Germanic *bugô, cognate with Swedish båge, English bow, German Bogen.

bue c (singular definite buen, plural indefinite buer)

1. bow (weapon)
2. (geometry) curve, arc
3. (architecture) arch, vault
4. (music) tie, ligature, slur
5. hoop

• pil c

Possibly from Middle Low German bûgen, from Old Saxon būgan, from Proto-West Germanic *beugan (“to bend”).

Cognate with English bow, Dutch buigen, German biegen. Swedish buga is also from Low German.

bue (imperative bu, infinitive at bue, present tense buer, past tense buede, perfect tense har buet)

1. to curve
2. to arch

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bue f sg

1. feminine singular of bu

• “bue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Vulgar Latin *boem, from Latin bovem (“cow, bull, or ox”). Compare Spanish buey. Doublet of bove.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.e/

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• Rhymes: -ue
• Hyphenation: bù‧e

bue m (plural buoi, derogatory (figurative only) buaccio (“dimwit, fool”), diminutive-derogatory (figurative only) buacciolo (“dimwit, fool”))

1. ox (adult castrated male of cattle)

   Synonyms: bove, manzo

2. (figurative) dimwit, fool

• boaro
• buino

• bue in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

The noun sense derives from a Murui myth, where the first word uttered by Muruima, the ancestor of the Murui, was "what?". Compare the similar semantic shift in Nüpode Huitoto nɨpode.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuwɛ]
• Hyphenation: bu‧e

¿bue?

1. what?

bue

1. Murui Huitoto (language)

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 38
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 140; 195

• boge

From Danish bue, from Old Norse bogi, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.

bue m (definite singular buen, indefinite plural buer, definite plural buene)

1. a bow (used in archery and music)
2. (architecture) an arch
3. (geometry) an arc

• bueskyting
• bueskytter
• buestreng
• langbue

• “bue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.e/

būe

1. inflection of būan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

From Malay buai, through North Moluccan Malay.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.e/

bue

1. (intransitive) to swing, rock

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh