bue

See also: Bue, bué, bue', bü, and BUE

Asturian

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Noun

bue m (plural bues)

1. bull
2. ox

References

• Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). →ISBN. on-line version.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥uːə]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

Declension

Declension of bue

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bue	buen	buer	buerne
genitive	bues	buens	buers	buernes

See also

• pil c

Etymology 2

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.

Verb

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

1. to curve
2. to arch

Conjugation

Conjugation of bue

active passive present buer — past buede — infinitive bue — imperative bu — participle present buende past buet (auxiliary verb have) gerund buen

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (Canada):

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Participle

bue f sg

1. feminine singular of bu

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.e/
• Rhymes: -ue
• Hyphenation: bù‧e

• Audio:

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Noun

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

Related terms

• boaro
• buino

See also

• bisonte
• bufalo
• manzo
• mucca
• toro
• vacca
• vitello

Further reading

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

Murui Huitoto

bue
Root	Classifier
buu-	-e

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

¿bue?

1. what?

Declension

Declension of bue

	singular	plural
absolutive	bue	—
nominative	buedɨ	—
accusative	buena	—
dative/locative	buemo	—
ablative	buemona	—
instrumental	buedo	—
causal	bueri	—
privative	buenino	—

Noun

bue

1. Murui Huitoto (language)

Declension

Declension of bue

	singular	plural
absolutive	bue	—
nominative	buedɨ	—
accusative	buena	—
dative/locative	buemo	—
ablative	buemona	—
instrumental	buedo	—
causal	bueri	—
privative	buenino	—

References

• 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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• boge

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• bueskyting
• bueskytter
• buestreng
• langbue

References

• “bue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.e/

Verb

būe

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

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.e]

Verb

bue

1. (intransitive) to swing, rock

Conjugation

Conjugation of bue

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tobue	fobue	mibue
2nd person		nobue	nibue
3rd person	masculine	obue	ibue yobue (archaic)
	feminine	mobue
	neuter	ibue

References

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