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bue

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See also: Bue, bué, bue', and

Asturian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Noun

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bue m (plural bues)

  1. bull
  2. ox

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Danish

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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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
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Etymology 2

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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

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

  1. to curve
  2. to arch
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French

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Pronunciation

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Participle

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bue f sg

  1. feminine singular of bu

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Italian

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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
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Further reading

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

Murui Huitoto

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbu.(w)ɛ]
  • Hyphenation: bu‧e

Pronoun

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¿bue?

  1. what?

References

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  • 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

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no
 bue (arkitektur) on Norwegian Wikipedia
 bue (geometri) on Norwegian Wikipedia

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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

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Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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bue

  1. (intransitive) to swing, rock

Conjugation

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Conjugation of bue
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tobue fobue mibue
2nd nobue nibue
3rd Masculine obue ibue, yobue
Feminine mobue
Neuter ibue
- archaic

References

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