biau

Angevin

Etymology

Inherited from Old French bel, from Latin bellus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bjo/

Adjective

biau m

1. beautiful

References

• A. J. Verrier, Glossaire étymologique et historique des patois et des parlers de l'Anjou (1908)
• C. Ménière, Glossaire angevin étymologique comparé avec différents dialects (1881)
• Maurice Davau, Le Vieux parler tourangeau: sa phonétique, ses mots et locutions (1979)
• René Coursault, Contes naïfs et nouvelles facétieuses: le parler tourangeau (1990)

Champenois

Adjective

biau m

1. Alternative form of bé

Norman

Alternative forms

• biâo (France)
• bieau (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French biau, from Latin bellus.

Adjective

biau m

1. (Guernsey) beautiful
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 534:

     Si le soleil est rouage au sèr, / Ch'est pour biau temps aver, / S'il est rouage au matin, / Ch'est la mare au chemin.

     If the sun sets red, it is a sign of fine weather, but when he rises red, you may expect pools of water on the road.

Old French

Adjective

biau m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bele)

1. Alternative form of bel

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bi.ˈa.u]

Verb

biau

1. (transitive) to strew
2. (transitive) to broadcast

Conjugation

Conjugation of biau

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tobiau	fobiau	mibiau
2nd person		nobiau	nibiau
3rd person	masculine	obiau	ibiau yobiau (archaic)
	feminine	mobiau
	neuter	ibiau

References

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.aɨ̯/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.ɛ/, /ˈbiː.a/
• (South Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.ai̯/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.ɛ/

Noun

biau

1. Soft mutation of piau (“to own”).

Mutation

Mutated forms of piau

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
piau	biau	mhiau	phiau

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.