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On a lighter note, I discovered on the internet that the Japanese word ben means "feces," so at least I have that.

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  1. noun The inner room or parlor of a house with two rooms.
  2. adverb Inside; within.
  3. preposition Within.

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  • Auf die Kinder wird den größten Anreiz gutes Essen und Trinken üben, also die Gourmandis. —  August Bebel: Charles Fourier
  • In biblical Hebrew we find the phrase ben-dod בן דוד for "the son of the uncle", i.e. cousin. —  Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective
  • On a lighter note, I discovered on the internet that the Japanese word ben means "feces," so at least I have that. —  123 I Love You
  • But come ben, my bonnie lassie; you're as welcome as flowers in May. —  Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow
  • 3880 And as he was himselve wys Riht so the worthi men of pris He hath of his conseil withholde For that is every Prince holde To make of suche his retenue Whiche wise ben, and to remue The foles: for ther is nothing Which mai be betre aboute a king Than conseil, which is the substance Of all a kinges governance. —  Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins
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  1. Middle English, variant of binne, within, from Old English binnan; see en in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English ben, bene, variant of bin, binne, from Anglo-Saxon binnan, within: see bin.
  2. from ben, adv.
  3. from Gaelic and Irish beinn, peak, summit, mountain, = Welsh pen, top, summit, head.
  4. Early modern English also benn, from Arabic bān, the tree which produces the ben-nut: see ben-nut.
 

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