# bue
## Asturian
### Alternative forms

* güe
* buö
* buöi
* guö
* güei
* buei

### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *boem for Latin bovem, accusative singular of bōs.

### Noun

bue m (plural bues)
* bull
* ox

### References

* Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). →ISBN. on-line version.

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈb̥uːə]

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse bogi, from Proto-Germanic *bugô, cognate with Swedish båge, English bow, German Bogen.

#### Noun

bue c (singular definite buen, plural indefinite buer)
* bow (weapon)
* (geometry) curve, arc
* (architecture) arch, vault
* (music) tie, ligature, slur
* hoop

##### See also

* pil c

### Etymology 2

Possibly from Middle Low German bûgen, from Old Saxon būgan, from Proto-West Germanic *beugan (“to bend”).
Cognate with English bow, Dutch buigen, German biegen. Swedish buga is also from Low German.

#### Verb

bue (imperative bu, infinitive at bue, present tense buer, past tense buede, perfect tense har buet)
* to curve
* to arch

##### Conjugation

activepassive
present
buer
past
buede
infinitive
bue
imperative
bu
participle
present
buende
past
buet (auxiliary verb have)
gerund
buen :

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Participle

bue f sg
* feminine singular of bu

### Further reading

* “bue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *boem, from Latin bovem (“cow, bull, or ox”). Compare Spanish buey. Doublet of bove.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.e/
* Rhymes: -ue
* Hyphenation: bù‧e
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bue m (plural buoi, derogatory (figurative only) buaccio (“dimwit, fool”), diminutive-derogatory (figurative only) buacciolo (“dimwit, fool”))
* ox (adult castrated male of cattle)
    Synonyms: bove, manzo
* (figurative) dimwit, fool

#### Related terms

* boaro
* buino

#### See also

* bisonte
* bufalo
* manzo
* mucca
* toro
* vacca
* vitello

### Further reading

* bue in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Murui Huitoto

bue :
| Root | Classifier |
| buu- | -e |

### Etymology

The noun sense derives from a Murui myth, where the first word uttered by Muruima, the ancestor of the Murui, was "what?". Compare the similar semantic shift in Nüpode Huitoto nɨpode.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbuwɛ]
* Hyphenation: bu‧e

### Pronoun

¿bue?
* what?

#### Declension
### Noun

bue
* Murui Huitoto (language)

#### Declension
### References

* Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 38
* Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 140; 195

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* boge

### Etymology

From Danish bue, from Old Norse bogi, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.

### Noun

bue m (definite singular buen, indefinite plural buer, definite plural buene)
* a bow (used in archery and music)
* (architecture) an arch
* (geometry) an arc

#### Derived terms

* bueskyting
* bueskytter
* buestreng
* langbue

### References

* “bue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbuː.e/

### Verb

būe
* inflection of būan:
** first-person singular present indicative
** singular present subjunctive

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbu.e]

### Verb

bue
* (intransitive) to swing, rock

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh