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.
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"
~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
⚜ | classic definition |
☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |