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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bētā

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bēta.

Noun

*bētā f

  1. beet

Inflection
ōn-stem
Singular
Nominative *bētā
Genitive *bētōn
Singular Plural
Nominative *bētā *bētōn
Accusative *bētōn *bētōn
Genitive *bētōn *bētōnō
Dative *bētōn *bētōm, *bētum
Instrumental *bētōn *bētōm, *bētum

Descendants
  • Old English: bēte
    • Middle English: bete, beet
      • English: beet
        • → Chickasaw: (from the plural) biits
        • → Hawaiian: piki
        • → Maori: pīti
  • Old Frisian: bete
  • Old Saxon: *bēta
    • Middle Low German: bête
      • German Low German: Beet
      • Plautdietsch: Beet
      • → Danish: bede
      • → Estonian: peet
      • → German: Bete
      • → Latvian: biete
      • → Norwegian:
        • Norwegian Nynorsk: bete
        • Norwegian Bokmål: bete
      • → Swedish: beta
  • Old Dutch: *bēta
  • Old High German: bieza
    • Middle High German: bieze, bizza
      • Bavarian: Bießen (Tirol)
        • ⇒ Bavarian: Pießl, Bießl
      • → Slovene: pesa

Further reading
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page xxiii
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