beot – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of beot

Noun: beot
Gender:

Nominative

Singularbēot
Pluralbēot

Genitive

Singularbēotes
Pluralbēota

Dative

Singularbēote
Pluralbēotum

Accusative

Singularbēot
Pluralbēot

Sample Sentences

  • Beorn sċeal ġebīdan, · þonne hē bēot spriceð,
  • oþþæt collenferð · cunne ġearwe
  • hwider hreþra ġehyġd · hweorfan wille. (Man must pause when he tells a promise
  • until bold spirit would know clearly
  • where thought of hearts would turn.) [10th century, The Wanderer:]

Nouns inflected like beot

beanland, beodfers, beat, beot, beow,

Etymology

From earlier bihāt, second element cognate with Old Norse heit with very similar semantics. See: Old Norse Nouns 'heit'.

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