bist

From Middle English bist, beest, best, from Old English bist ("(thou) art"; second person singular of bēon (“to be”)), from Proto-Germanic *biusi (“(thou) art”), equivalent to be +‎ -est. Cognate with West Frisian bist (“(thou) art”), Low German büst (“(thou) art”), German bist (“(thou) art”).

• Rhymes: -ɪst

bist

1. (Britain dialectal, Bristol, West Country, Northern England) Originally used to form the second person singular of be, but can denote other present tense forms, such as: are, am, is
   • 1875, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch:

     Thee bist rayther too much a feelosofer, I be afeard, for me.

   • 1904, Henry Branch, Cotswold and vale:

     Lookee, thee bist purty, my love; lookee, thee bist purty: thee hast dove's eyes betwix thy locks; thy locks be like a flock o' ship fur thickedness.

   Where bist goin'.

   Where are you going?

   I bist goin' 'ome.

   I am going home

   How bist?

   How are you?

• bin
• bisn't

• TBIs, bits, stib-, tibs

From Old High German bist. Cognate to Middle Dutch bes, best[1], dialectal English bist, beest.

German bist has two sources:

• a form based on Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“(you) are (sg.)”)
• an initial b- that was added to the word under influence of verb forms based on Proto-Germanic *beuną (as in Old English beon)[2]

• IPA^(key): /bɪst/

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bist

1. Second-person singular present of sein.

   Du bist nicht mein Sohn.

   You are not my son.

• beest, best

From Old English bist ("(thou) art"; second person singular of bēon (“to be”)), from Proto-Germanic *biusi (“(thou) art”), equivalent to been +‎ -est.

bist

1. Second-person singular present indicative form of been

This form is less common than art for the second-person singular.

• English: bist, beest (archaic or dialectal)

From Tajik бист (bist).

bist

1. twenty

• IPA^(key): /bɪst/

bist n (plural bisten, diminutive bistje or bistke)

1. animal, beast

   De bisten binne fuort. ― The animals are gone.

• beest

• leavehearsbistke

• “beest”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

bist

1. twenty

• Ronald Emmerick, Iranian, in Indo-European Numerals (1992, →ISBN, edited by Jadranka Gvozdanovic), page 312