beit

1. first/third-personsingularpastindicative ofbíta

beit

1. Alternative form ofbayte

• bet(of bite)

beit

1. simplepast ofbite
2. imperative ofbeite

beit

1. simplepast ofbite
2. imperative ofbeite

• IPA^(key):/bʲedʲ/

beit

1. third-personpluralpresentsubjunctiveabsolute ofat·tá

FromProto-Germanic*baitō, fromProto-Indo-European*bʰeyd-(“to break, split”). Related tobíta.

beit f (genitivebeitar,pluralbeitar)

1. apasturage, apasture
2. a plate of metal mounted on the brim (of a thing)

• beitarland n(“a pasture man”)
• beitarmaðr m(“owner of a pasture”)
• beitartollr(“a toll or fee for pasturage”)

• beita
• beiti

• Norwegian Nynorsk:beit f
• Icelandic:beit f

FromProto-Germanic*baitą,*baitaz, also fromProto-Indo-European*bʰeyd-(“to break, split”). Cognate withOld Englishbāt, which was borrowed into Old Norse again as the more usedbátr.

beit n (genitivebeits)

1. (poetic) aboat

• Icelandic:beit n

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

beit

1. second-personsingularimperativeactive ofbeita
2. first/third-personsingularpastindicativeactive ofbíta

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “beit”, inAn Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press,page56
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “beit1”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page46; also available at theInternet Archive
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “beit2”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “beit3”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive

• IPA^(key):/beˈit/

beit (nominative pluralbeits)

1. bite

• beitön