beet

• enPR: bēt, IPA^(key): /biːt/

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• Homophone: beat
• Rhymes: -iːt

From Middle English bete, from Old English bēte, from Latin bēta, possibly of Celtic origin.

beet (plural beets)

1. Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

   The beet is a hardy species.

2. (US, Canada) A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.

Unlike beetroot, beet is not usually uncountable when referring to the food: pickled beets (cf. pickled beetroot).

• chard

• → Chickasaw: (from the plural) biits
• → Hawaiian: piki
• → Maori: pīti

• chard
• mangelwurzel
• orach
• spinach

• beet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:beets on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Beta vulgaris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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• beet at University of Melbourne "Sorting plant names"

From Old English bētan.

• bete

beet

1. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To improve; to mend.
2. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To kindle a fire.
3. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To rouse.

• bete

From Dutch beet, variant of biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

• IPA^(key): /biə̯t/, [biət]

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beet (plural bete)

1. beetroot

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• IPA^(key): /beːt/

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• Hyphenation: beet
• Rhymes: -eːt

From Middle Dutch bēte, from Old Dutch *biti, from Proto-Germanic *bitiz.

beet m (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. bite

• beetgaar
• beethebben
• beetnemen
• beetpakken

• bijten

• Negerhollands: bit

From Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

beet f (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. Alternative form of biet

• beetwortel

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

beet

1. singular past indicative of bijten

• bete

beet

1. nominative plural of bee

beet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of beō

beet

1. Alternative form of bete

• baête (continental Normandy)
• bête (Jersey, Guernsey)

From Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.

beet f (plural beets)

1. (Sark) animal