biau

Inherited from Old French bel, from Latin bellus.

IPA^(key): /bjo/

biau m

1. beautiful

• A. J. Verrier, Glossaire étymologique et historique des patois et des parlers de l'Anjou (1908)
• C. Ménière, Glossaire angevin étymologique comparé avec différents dialects (1881)
• Maurice Davau, Le Vieux parler tourangeau: sa phonétique, ses mots et locutions (1979)
• René Coursault, Contes naïfs et nouvelles facétieuses: le parler tourangeau (1990)

biau m

1. Alternative form of bé

• biâo (France)
• bieau (Jersey)

From Old French biau, from Latin bellus.

biau m

1. (Guernsey) beautiful
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 534:

     Si le soleil est rouage au sèr, / Ch'est pour biau temps aver, / S'il est rouage au matin, / Ch'est la mare au chemin.

     If the sun sets red, it is a sign of fine weather, but when he rises red, you may expect pools of water on the road.

biau m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bele)

1. Alternative form of bel

• IPA^(key): [bi.ˈa.u]

biau

1. (transitive) to strew
2. (transitive) to broadcast

Conjugation of biau
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tobiau	fobiau	mibiau
2nd	nobiau	nibiau
3rd	Masculine	obiau	ibiau, yobiau†
Feminine	mobiau
Neuter	ibiau
† - archaic

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• (North Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.aɨ̯/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.ɛ/, /ˈbiː.a/
• (South Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.ai̯/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.ɛ/

biau

1. Soft mutation of piau (“to own”).