beta

Betekenis (Engels)

A beet.

Concepten

beetwortel

biet

kroot

mangelwortel

bèta

snijbiet

Synoniemen

bēta

Vertalingen

Runkelrübe

Mangold

beet

remolacha

beterraba

beetroot

remolatxa

Bete

betterave

Rübe

silk

barbabietola

pincar

Swiss chard

Etymologie (Engels)

Said by some sources to be of Celtic origin, but no obvious Celtic cognates exist; Ernout and Meillet adduce an apparently apocryphal Irish biatuis as cognate. Also compared are blitum (“spinach”), meta (“conic heap of stones”) (compared to the root's spindle form), and less likely, sense 2, with the seed vessel resembling the letter.