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

• nábúi m (“neighbour”)

Related 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

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓuj˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓuj˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓuj˦˥]

Noun

(classifier cái) búi • (𧸻)

1. tuft

Verb

búi • (𧸻)

1. to make a tuft