different between beet vs beey

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?t, IPA^(key): /bi?t/
• Homophone: beat
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English bete, from Old English bete, from Latin beta. Most likely of Celtic etymology.

Noun

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.

   There are beets growing over these.

2. A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• chard
• mangelwurzel
• orach
• spinach

References

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

Etymology 2

From Old English b?tan.

Alternative forms

• bete

Verb

beet

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

Anagrams

• bete

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch beet, variant of biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin b?ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi??t/, [bi?t]

Noun

beet (plural bete)

1. beetroot

References

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?t/
• Hyphenation: beet
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch b?te, from Old Dutch *biti, from Proto-Germanic *bitiz.

Noun

beet m (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. bite

Derived terms

• beetgaar
• beethebben
• beetnemen
• beetpakken

Related terms

• bijten

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch bete, from Latin b?ta.

Noun

beet f (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. Alternative form of biet.

Derived terms

• beetwortel

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

beet

1. singular past indicative of bijten

Anagrams

• bete

Finnish

Noun

beet

1. nominative plural of bee

Latin

Verb

beet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of be?

Norman

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Old French beste, from Latin b?stia.

Noun

beet f (plural beets)

1. (Sark) animal

English

Etymology

From bee +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: b??i, IPA^(key): /?bi?i/

Adjective

beey (comparative more beey, superlative most beey)

1. (informal, rare) Reminiscent of or containing bees.
   • 1871, P.J. Malone, “Goethe and Frederica” in The Rural Carolinian II, page 252

     It was the sweetest April-time, / And beey-swarms humm’d thro’ the trees, / And Nature’s voice, in silver rhyme, / Received fresh cadence from the bees.

   • 1887, Ptolemy Houghton, Hatred Is Akin to Love, page 35

     Fell backwards into a soft, though rather waspy and beey, bed.

   • 1905, The Bee-Keepers’ Review XVIII, page 58

     [Sugar honey] has a peculiarly sweet, spicy, “beey” flavor that is simply delicious.

   • 2008, Muncy Christian, The Very Bloody Marys, page 190

     The buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey sound was back. In fact, it sounded even more buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey than it had before.

Translations

Kankanaey

Noun

beey

1. house