abe

abe

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Western Abenaki.

Probably a- +‎ be.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbi/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -iː

abe

1. (intransitive, infinitive, British, uncommon) To be.
   • 1839, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 1, page 527:

     Let it abe, I say.

   • 1864, Charles Dickens, Household Words‎, page 186:

     But if it amuses her I let it abe.

   • 1885, Charles Gibbon, Heart's Delight‎, page 154:

     But let that abe.

• Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 3

• AEB, BAe, BEA, Bae, Bea, EAB, aeb, bae, eba

abe

1. elder sister

• IPA^(key): /aˈbe/, [ʔʌˈbɛ]
• Hyphenation: a‧be

abé (causative absiisé, autobenefactive abité)

1. (transitive) do
2. (transitive) make
3. (transitive) operate
4. (transitive) execute

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “abe”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Possibly related to avë.

• IPA^(key): [aˈbɛ]

abe f (plural abe, definite abeja, definite plural abet)

1. shadow
2. (regional) spectre, phantasm, ghost, horror
3. (regional) gracefulness
4. (colloquial) alphabet

• “abe”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
• Oda Buchholz, Wilfried Fiedler, Gerda Uhlisch (2000) Langenscheidt Handwörterbuch Albanisch, Langenscheidt Verlag, →ISBN, page 27 (abé)
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “abe”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 1

• aba (Graubünden)
• ache, achi (some Bern)
• ai, ahi, aahi (Fribourg, some St.Gallen)

abe

1. down, downwards

   Antonym: ufe

   Wetsch scho wider abe? ― Do you already want down / off (i.e. alight) again?

• Also used as a verb prefix, corresponding to German hinab- or German herab-.

• une
• dune, dunne

• “ab-hin”, in Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache (in German), volume 2, 1891, column 1319
• “abe”, in Wörterbuch Berndeutsch-Deutsch (in German), berndeutsch.ch, 1999–2024

The sense “south” may be reinforced by or a semantic loan from Venetian: vago zò a Roma (“I go south to Rome”, literally “I go down to Rome”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

abe (Sette Comuni)

1. down
2. south, down south

   Ich ghéa abe kan Ròome.

   I'm going down south to Rome.

• abar, iidar

• au

• denaabe
• hòitan abe

• “abe” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

• IPA^(key): /aːbə/, [ˈæːb̥ə]

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• Rhymes: -aːbə

From Old Norse api (“fool”).

abe c (singular definite aben, plural indefinite aber)

1. monkey
2. ape

• abekat

• fjeldabe

From Old Norse apa, from api (“fool”).

abe (imperative ab, infinitive at abe, present tense aber, past tense abede, perfect tense har abet)

1. mimic, ape

• abe efter
• efterabe

abe

1. outside (of)

• Randy Jones, Provisional Kom - English lexicon (2001, Yaoundé, Cameroon)

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.be/

abe

1. may (to be allowed)

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

abe

1. earring.

• abey

From Latin avis, avem (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis (“bird”).

abe f (plural abes)

1. bird

From Old French arbre.

abe m (plural abes)

1. tree

abe

1. inflection of abar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Latin apis, apem. Compare Campidanese abi, Nuorese ape.

• IPA^(key): /ˈabe/, [ˈäː.β̞ɛ]

abe f (plural abes)

1. (Logudorese) bee

   S’abe faghet su mele. ― The bee makes honey.

2. (Nuorese) Alternative form of ape

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

• Abe on the Sardinian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sc

abe

1. Alternative form of abee

• “abe” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.