# bist
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English bist, beest, best, from Old English bist ("(thou) art"; second person singular of bēon (“to be”)), from Proto-Germanic *biusi (“(thou) art”), equivalent to be +‎ -est. Cognate with West Frisian bist (“(thou) art”), Low German büst (“(thou) art”), German bist (“(thou) art”).

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɪst

### Verb

bist
* (UK dialectal, Black Country, Bristol, West Country, Northern England) Used to form the second person singular of be.
** 1875, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch:Thee bist rayther too much a feelosofer, I be afeard, for me.
** 1904, Henry Branch, Cotswold and vale:Lookee, thee bist purty, my love; lookee, thee bist purty: thee hast dove's eyes betwix thy locks; thy locks be like a flock o' ship fur thickedness.
** 1937, Homer, The Odyssey:" […] Stay thee where tha bist, sit down on thi property; what's the sense of wanderen over the barren sea and maybe happenen an accident?"
    Where bist goin'.
       Where are you going?
    How bist?
       How are you?

#### Related terms

* bin
* bisn't

### Anagrams

* ITBS, ITBs, TBIs, bits, stib-, tibs

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

bist
* (obsolete or dialectal) second-person singular present of zijn

## German
### Etymology

From Old High German bist. Cognate to Middle Dutch bes, best, dialectal English bist, beest.
German bist has two sources:
* a form based on Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“(you) are (sg.)”)
* an initial b- that was added to the word under influence of verb forms based on Proto-Germanic *beuną (as in Old English beon)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɪst/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

bist
* second-person singular present of sein
    Du bist nicht mein Sohn.You are not my son.

### References

* ↑ A. van Loey, Schönfeld's Historische Grammatica van het Nederlands, 8. druk 1970, →ISBN; §147a
* ↑ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “bin”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɪst/

### Verb

bist
* first/second-person singular perfect of bies

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* beest, best

### Etymology

From Old English bist ("(thou) art"; second person singular of bēon (“to be”)), from Proto-Germanic *biusi (“(thou) art”), equivalent to been +‎ -est.

### Verb

bist
* second-person singular present indicative of been

#### Usage notes

This form is less common than art for the second-person singular.

#### Descendants

* English: bist, beest (archaic or dialectal)

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* bis — Mercian
* beost

### Verb

bist
* second-person singular present indicative of bēon

#### Descendants

* Middle English: bist, beest, best
** English: bist, beest (archaic or dialectal)

## Old High German
### Verb

bist
* second-person singular present indicative of wesan

## Tat
### Etymology

Cognate with Persian بیست (bist).

### Numeral

bist
* twenty

## Wakhi
### Etymology

From Tajik бист (bist).

### Numeral

bist
* twenty

## West Frisian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɪst/

### Etymology 1

From Old Frisian bist, second person singular indicative of wesa (“to be”). Cognate with English bist, German bist.

#### Verb

bist
* second person singular indicative of wêze

### Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin bēstia.

#### Noun

bist n (plural bisten, diminutive bistje or bistke)
* animal, beast
    De bisten binne fuort. ― The animals are gone.

##### Alternative forms

* beest

##### Derived terms

* leavehearsbistke

##### Further reading

* “beest”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

## Yagnobi
### Numeral

bist
* twenty

### Further reading

* Ronald Emmerick (1992) “Iranian”, in Jadranka Gvozdanović, editor, Indo-European Numerals, Mouton de Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 312