בײַ

Yiddish

Alternative forms

• באַ (ba)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German bī (“by, at”) (compare German bei), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *bi (compare English by), from the second syllable of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”).

Preposition

בײַ • (bay) (contracted dem-form בײַם (baym))

1. at, beside, near, by
2. with
3. chez, at the house of
4. on (the person of)
5. in the mind of
6. about, around
7. on