beot

From Middle English beot (“boast, threat, boastful speech; boastfulness”), from Old English bēot; see below.

beot (countable and uncountable, plural beots)

1. (countable) A boast or threat; boastful speech.
2. (uncountable) Boastfulness.

• -to-be, Tebo, Tobe, boet, bote, to-be, tobe

• IPA^(key): /beːo̯t/

bēot n (nominative plural bēot)

1. threat, danger
2. promise, vow, boast

• bēotian — to threaten, boast, vow, promise
• bēotlic — arrogant, exulting, boastful, threatening
• bēotlīce — arrogantly, exultingly, boastfully, threateningly
• bêotmæcg m. — leader
• bêotung f. — threatening
• bêotword n. — boast: threat.