In the Star Wars universe, the Bith are a species of highly intelligent humanoids native to the eponymous planet of Bith. The Bith are instantly recognizable by their smooth, hairless domed heads, their massive, glossy black eyes, and their lack of any distinguishable nose amid various folds of flesh at the center of their face.

Possessed of remarkable eyesight, incredibly sensitive hearing, and above average intelligence, Bith often made their living in fields such as music, science, or engineering. Every single member of Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, the cantina band in the Mos Eisley Cantina at Mos Eisley spaceport on the planet of Tatooine in the Outer Rim, was a Bith.

Bith is the Middle English spelling of the Old English biþ; it is the third-person present singular of bēon, the verb we have mutilated into the modern 'to be'.

Today we would say "he is", "she is", or "it is"; in Middle English it would be "he bith", "sche bith", or "hit bith".

This evolved into beeth and bes before the great English verb die-off, when everything went all is/am/are.

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