bist
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 4
Definition of bist
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(Northern-England, UK, West-Country, dialectal)Used to form the second person singular of be.
“Thee bist rayther too much a feelosofer, I be afeard, for me.”
“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.”
“"[…] Stay thee where tha bist, sit down on thi property; what's the sense of wanderen over the barren sea and maybe happenen an accident?"”
“Where bist goin'. Where are you going?”
“How bist? How are you?”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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”).
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