Word: 'be' • Extended Annotations

be

Extended Annotations

Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of be

Old English beon, beom, bion "be, exist, come to be, become, happen"

from Proto-Germanic biju- "I am, I will be"

this b-root is from PIE root bheue- "to be, exist, grow"

The modern verb to be in its entirety represents the merger of two once-distinct verbs, the "b-root" represented by be and the am/was verb, which was itself a conglomerate.

be verb

to have presence in the realm of perceived reality; exist; live
(used in the perfect or past perfect tenses only)
to pay a visit; go
to take place; occur
The above definitions are from Collins dictionary, with a few more (here not outlined) specifics of usage. Merriam-Webster offers a different outlook:
to equal in meaning; have the same connotation as; symbolize
to have identity with; to constitute the same idea or object as
to constitute the same class as
to have a specified qualification or characterization
to belong to the class of
to have an objective existence; have reality or actuality; live
to have, maintain, or occupy a place, situation, or position
to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted —used only in infinitive form
to take place; occur
to come or go
archaic: belong, befall

Details

Specific examples and quotes of be

The soul bird or bꜣ (Pronunciation/(reconstructed) IPA: /biʀ/ → /biʀ/ → /bej/ → /βej/), from the Papyrus of Ani, or Ani's Book of the Dead (Book of Going Forth by Day)

"'To be', or as the German handbooks sometimes call it, the Verbum substantivum, is not a single 'verb', but a collection of semantically related paradigm-fragments - in the rest of Germanic as well as Old English."

"Old English"
by Roger Lass

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⚜	classic definition
☣	artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense

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