See also: beet, bèèt, and be- -et

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Proper noun

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Beet (plural Beets)

  1. A surname.

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East Central German

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French bête

Noun

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Beet f or n

  1. (High Prussian) fine after losing a card game.
    • 1938, Walther Ziesemer, Preußisches Wörterbuch: Sprache und Volkstum Nordostdeutschlands. 9-15. Entry "Bete".[1]:
      Ech muss beet zoahle....
      I have to pay "beet"...
  2. (High Prussian, figuratively, adjectival) losing a card game.

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Middle Low German bēte, compare German Bete.

Noun

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Beet f

  1. (High Prussian) beet

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German bette, bete, bet, from Old High German betti, beti (bed, flower-bed), from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją. Doublet of Bett (bed for sleeping).

The West Germanic noun had simple -d- in the nominative/accusative and geminated -dd- in the oblique cases. This alternation was generally levelled towards the geminate, but variants with a simple consonant survived through Old and Middle High German. The form Beet, which is of Central German origin, likely continues such dialectal forms,[1] though some consider it a late and arbitrary alteration.[2] The semantic distinction from Bett is in any case artificial and dates from the 17th century.

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Noun

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Beet n (strong, genitive Beetes or Beets, plural Beete)

  1. bed (for plants)

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  • Danish: bed

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  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Beet”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
  2. ^ Beet” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

Further reading

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  • Beet” in Duden online
  • Beet” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Low German

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French bête

Noun

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Beet f or n

  1. (low Prussian) fine after losing a card game.
  2. (low Prussian, figuratively, adjectival) losing a card game.
    • 1938, Walther Ziesemer, Preußisches Wörterbuch: Sprache und Volkstum Nordostdeutschlands. 9-15. Entry "Bete".[2]:
      He ös beet
      He has lost the game

Etymology 2

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Middle Low German bēte, compare German Bete.

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Beet f

  1. (Low Prussian) beet

Plautdietsch

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Noun

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Beet f (plural Beete)

  1. beet