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beme

beme

English

Noun

beme ‎(plural bemes)

  1. (obsolete) Trumpet.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bemen, from Old English bȳmian ‎(“to blow a trumpet, trumpet forth”), from bȳme ‎(“trumpet”).

Verb

beme ‎(third-person singular simple present bemes, present participle beming, simple past and past participle bemed)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To sound a trumpet.
Derived terms

Etymology

From Middle English beme, from Old English bēme, bȳme, bīeme ‎(“trumpet", also "tablet, billet”), from Proto-Germanic *baumijǭ ‎(“wooden instrument”), from *baumaz ‎(“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhū ‎(“to grow”). More at beam.

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