bees
Afrikaans
/bɪəs/
noun
Definitions
- cowcow, oxox bovine, esp. of a domesticated species
- brutebrute
Etymology
Inherited from Dutch, Flemish beest (beast, animal, someone who enjoys an activity) inherited from Middle Dutch beeste derived from Old French beste derived from Latin bēstia (beast, animal).
Origin
Latin
bēstia
Gloss
beast, animal
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
獣
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *bīstia Latin
- *bīstius Latin
- bestia Latin
- bestiarius Latin
- bestiola Latin
- bestula Latin
- bēsta Latin
- bēstia Latin
- bēstiālis Latin
- bēstiārium Latin
- bīstia Latin
- Bestie German
- bestia Italian
- bakbeest Dutch, Flemish
- beest Dutch, Flemish
- beestenbende Dutch, Flemish
- beestenspel Dutch, Flemish
- feestbeest Dutch, Flemish
- hoornbeest Dutch, Flemish
- knuffelbeest Dutch, Flemish
- koebeest Dutch, Flemish
- liegbeest Dutch, Flemish
- podiumbeest Dutch, Flemish
- suikerbeest Dutch, Flemish
- varkensbeest Dutch, Flemish
- vloekbeest Dutch, Flemish
- wildebeest Dutch, Flemish
- бестия Russian
- bestia Spanish, Castilian
- *bik Proto-Germanic
- bestia Polish
- beeste Middle English
- beste Old French
- bèstia Catalan, Valencian
- beest Middle Dutch
- beeste Middle Dutch
- bestio Ido
- píast Old Irish
- beesvleis Afrikaans
- vleis Afrikaans
- baête Norman
- beet Norman
- bête Norman
- beste Middle French
- *bischo Old Portuguese
- bescha Old Portuguese
- besta Old Portuguese
- bēst Middle Low German
- bèstia Occitan
- bes-cha Romansh
- bestga Romansh
- bestia Romansh
- biestg Romansh
- bist Western Frisian
- biesse Walloon