Bye
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bye¹
- /baɪ/
- /bɑːj/ South Asia
Sounds like bi, buy, by, bhai (without aspiration), boy (father-bother merger), by (long PRICE)
Where it comes from
Variant form of by, from Old English bī (“being near”).
noun byes
- The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team. Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.
- An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
- A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc. The Synod of Dort in some points condemneth, upon the by, even the discipline of the Church of England.
- An unspecified way or place. Frank Kennedy will shew you the penalties in the act, and ye ken yoursell they used to put their run goods into the auld Place of Ellangowan up bye there.
- A pass.
adjective more bye · most bye
- Out of the way; remote. At length having gained a very bye Alley, where he thought he might enter into a Conference unnoticed by any who knew him.
- Secondary; supplementary. But the two labourers of whom I am speaking had their allowances, lived on their fixed wages with the profits of their bye labour, one being pig-killer to the village, and, therefore, always busy from Michaelmas to Lady-day, at a shilling a pig, and the offal, on which his family subsisted, wit h th
bye²
- /baɪ/
- /bɑːj/ South Asia
Sounds like bi, buy, by, bhai (without aspiration), boy (father-bother merger), by (long PRICE)
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós?
Proto-Germanic *gudą
Proto-West Germanic *god
Old English god
Middle English god
Middle English God
English God
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyétider.?
Proto-Germanic *beuną
Proto-West Germanic *beun
Old English bēon
Middle English been
English be
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Indo-European *wí
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *wíterosder.
Proto-Indo-European *wíterom
Proto-Germanic *wiþrą
Proto-West Germanic *wiþr
Old English wiþerclip.
Old English wiþ
Middle English wiþ
English with
Proto-Indo-European *uswé
Proto-Indo-European *-(m)is?
Proto-Indo-European *uswísder.
Proto-Germanic *izwiz
Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz
Old English ēow
Middle English yow
English you
▲
English goodinflu.
English goodbyeclip.
English bye
Shortened form of goodbye.
interjection
- Goodbye.
- An exclamation of disbelief or dismissal. “Okay, busted. But you see all them muscles, girl?” She shakes her head, laughing. “Nope. I only have eyes for my boo.” “Girl, bye. You can still look.” She giggles. “Well, I ain’t lookin’ hard, trust.[…]”
noun byes
- A command to exit a session.
bye³
- /baɪ/
- /bɑːj/ South Asia
Sounds like bi, buy, by, bhai (without aspiration), boy (father-bother merger), by (long PRICE)
noun byes
- Eye dialect spelling of boy.boy "So what shall I do, now, Patric? Can you think of any plan? "Bedad!" said Pat , as he scratched his head , “ I'm the very bye that can."
bye⁴
- /baɪ/
- /bɑːj/ South Asia
Sounds like bi, buy, by, bhai (without aspiration), boy (father-bother merger), by (long PRICE)
Where it comes from
Alternative forms.
preposition
- Obsolete spelling of by.by
noun
- Obsolete spelling of bee.bee
Bye⁵
proper noun Byes
- A surname.
