beleave
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English
Etymology
A merger of two Middle English verbs:
- beleven, from Old English belǣfan (“to leave, let remain”), from Proto-Germanic *bilaibijaną. Equivalent to be- + leave.
- bliven, beliven (“to remain, stay”), from Old English belīfan (“to remain”), from Proto-Germanic *bilībaną. Hence belive (Etymology 1).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɪˈliːv/
- (General American) IPA(key): /bɪˈliv/, /bi-/, /bə-/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -iːv
- Homophone: believe
- Hyphenation: be‧leave
Verb
beleave (third-person singular simple present beleaves, present participle beleaving, simple past and past participle beleft)
- (obsolete, transitive) To leave behind, abandon.
- Synonyms: desert, forsake; see also Thesaurus:abandon
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be left; to remain.
- Synonyms: continue, stay; see also Thesaurus:remain
Anagrams
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English bileve, from Old English lēafa, from Proto-West Germanic *laubu.
Pronunciation
Noun
beleave
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 25
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