Beet

Beet (plural Beets)

1. A surname.

• Beets

• bete

• IPA^(key): /beːt/

Borrowed from French bête

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.

Borrowed from Middle Low German bēte, compare German Bete.

Beet f

1. (High Prussian) beet

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.

• IPA^(key): /beːt/

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• Homophone: bet

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

1. bed (for plants)

• → Danish: bed

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• IPA^(key): /beːt/

Borrowed from French bête

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

Middle Low German bēte, compare German Bete.

Beet f

1. (Low Prussian) beet

Beet f (plural Beete)

1. beet