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
  • Middle Dutch: bête
    • Dutch: biet, beet
      • Afrikaans: beet
      • → Indonesian: bit
• Old High German: bieza
  • Middle High German: bieze, bizza
    • Bavarian: Bießen (Tirol)
      • ⇒ Bavarian: Pießl, Bießl
    • → Slovene: pesa

Further reading

• Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page xxiii