beyo

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish bello, in turn a borrowing from Old Occitan bel, bell, from Latin bellus. According to Coromines and Pascual, first attested in the early 13th century, but neither in the Poem of the Cid nor in preliterary Castilian. Part of the evidence for it being a borrowing is the lack of diphthongization, cf. Old Spanish castiello, amariello. The native Old Spanish terms were bellido and fermoso.

Adjective

beyo (Hebrew spelling בילייו, feminine beya)[1]

  1. beautiful; pretty; comely; handsome (fair)
    Synonyms: ermozo, lindo
    Antonym: feo
    • 1996, Aki Yerushalayim‎[1], number 53, page 55:
      Beyo ninyo, keres venir agora
      Handsome boy, you want to come now…
  2. nice; pleasant; lovely; charming; endearing
    Synonym: lindo
    • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim‎[2], volumes 26–28, page 51:
      De sus beyos esfuenyos el kavo veremos.
      We shall see the end of someone’s pleasant dreams.

References

  1. ^ “beyo”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasury of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim
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