Beet
English edit
Proper noun edit
Beet (plural Beets)
- A surname.
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East Central German edit
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Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
Beet f or n
- (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"...
- (High Prussian, figuratively, adjectival) losing a card game.
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Middle Low German bēte, compare German Bete.
Noun edit
Beet f
- (High Prussian) beet
German edit
Etymology edit
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.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Beet n (strong, genitive Beetes or Beets, plural Beete)
- bed (for plants)
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- → Danish: bed
References edit
- ^ 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
- ^ “Beet” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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Low German edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
Beet f or n
- (low Prussian) fine after losing a card game.
- (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 edit
Middle Low German bēte, compare German Bete.
Noun edit
Beet f
- (Low Prussian) beet
Plautdietsch edit
Noun edit
Beet f (plural Beete)