Participles
| Present | bēonde |
| Past | (ġe)bēon |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | bēo |
| 2nd sing. | bist |
| 3rd sing. | biþ |
| 1st plur. | bēoþ |
| 2nd plur. | bēoþ |
| 3rd plur. | bēoþ |
Past
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | bēo |
| 2nd sing. | bēo |
| 3rd sing. | bēo |
| 1st plur. | bēon |
| 2nd plur. | bēon |
| 3rd plur. | bēon |
Past
Verbs conjugated like 'beon'
beon,
Verbs similar to 'beon'
bedon,
befon,
behon,
deon,
leon,
seon,
teon,
þeon,
ætbeon,
afon,
Etymology
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-. See: Proto-Germanic '
*beuną', Proto-Germanic '
*wesaną'.
Sample Sentences
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c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Greater Litany"
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Sē ðe gōd bēon wile, clypiġe tō ðām þe ǣfre is gōd, þæt hē hine gōdne ġewyrċe. (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.)
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late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of The Consolation of Philosophy
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Þā cwæþ hē, "Wāst þū hwæt mann sīe?" Þā cwæþ iċ, "Iċ wāt þæt hit biþ sāwol and līchama." (Then he said, "Do you know what a person is?" So I said, "I know it's a soul and a body.")
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c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Lord's Ascension"
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Eft 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. (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.)
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c. 992, Ælfric, "The Passion of the Blessed Stephen Protomartyr"
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Ǣlċ lof bið on ende ġesungen. (All praise will be sung at the end.)
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Blickling Homilies, "St. Andrew"
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Wē bēoþ mid þē swā hwæder swā þū færest. (We'll be with you wherever you go.)
Cognates
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