Etymology

honeybee

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English bee ← Middle English be ← Old English bēo
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The story

  1. Englishhoney
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰey-
  3. Proto-Germanic*bijǭ
  4. Proto-West Germanic*bijā
  5. Old Englishbēo
  6. Middle Englishbe
  7. Englishbee
  8. English todayhoneybee

From honey + bee.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.