beth

See also: Beth and beð

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Bronze Age picture of a house by acrophony, ultimately Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bĕth, IPA(key): /bɛθ/
  • IPA(key): /bɛt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛθ
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

beth (plural beths)

  1. The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁
  2. The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב
  3. The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʲeθ/

Verb

·beth

  1. third-person singular past subjunctive of at·tá

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
beth beth
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ 		mbeth
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • be’ (colloquial)
  • pa beth (literary)

Etymology

Originally the soft mutation of peth (“thing”) after pa (“what”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis.

Pronunciation

  • (standard) (colloquial) IPA(key): /beːθ/
    • (colloquial) IPA(key): /beː/, /bɛ/

Pronoun

beth

  1. what?

Noun

beth

  1. Soft mutation of peth.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
peth beth mheth pheth
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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