beten

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• Rhymes: -eːtən

beten

1. plural of beet

beten

1. inflection of bijten:
   1. plural past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

• beent

From Middle High German beten, from Old High German betōn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːtn̩/, /ˈbeːtən/

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• Hyphenation: be‧ten

beten (weak, third-person singular present betet, past tense betete, past participle gebetet, auxiliary haben)

1. to pray

• Anbetung
• Gebet
• Gesundbeten
• Vorbeter / Vorbeterin

• “beten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “beten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “beten” in Duden online
• “beten” in OpenThesaurus.de

Inherited from Old English bēatan, from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną.

• beete, bet, bete, betyn, beytt
• beaten (Early Middle English)
• byete (Kent)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ̝ːtən/

beten (third-person singular simple present beteth, present participle betynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative bet, past participle beten)

1. To beat; to repeatedly strike or hit:
   1. To hit or whip; to attack with a blunt weapon or the hands:
   2. To bombard or strike with projectiles.
   3. (of the weather) To violently or furiously assail.
   4. To bat (wings or eyes) up and down.
   5. (rare) To strike cloth or tow.
2. To (repeatedly or violently) press, pound or whack:
   1. To strike metal into shape; to perform metalworking.
   2. To throb or vibrate; to make a regular pulse.
   3. (rare) To thresh; to separate grain from the chaff.
3. (especially cooking) To crush, grind or mix; to cause to lose form.
4. To decorate with embroidery, metalwork, or paintwork.
5. To beat (conquer, ruin, or overcome).
6. (figurative) To inflict punishment upon someone.
7. (rare) To be near or adjacent; to border.
8. (of a quarry, rare) To enter a waterbody so a hunting hound loses scent.
9. (figurative, rare) To talk or converse about.

• Exceptionally, a reduplicated strong class 7 past beft is found besides expected bet in the Cursor Mundi; hoten is the only other verb to display this highly archaic feature.

• English: beat
  • → Pennsylvania German: biede
• Scots: beat, beit

• “bēten, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Old English bētan, from Proto-West Germanic *bōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *bōtijaną; some forms are remodelled on bet (“better”).

• beete, bete, bett, betten, beytt
• betenn, beote (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːtən/, /ˈbɛtən/

beten (third-person singular simple present beteth, present participle betynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative bette, past participle bet)

1. To fix or mend; to perform repairs to.
   1. To alleviate or cure; to remove a condition.
   2. To reassure; to free from distress.
2. To save from danger or death.
3. To expiate; to make amends for a sin or wrong.
4. To start or add fuel to a fire; to stoke.
5. (figuratively) To rouse or stir (a feeling)

• English: beet (dialectal, obsolete)
• Scots: bete, beit, beet, beat

• “bẹ̄ten, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

beten

1. definite singular of bet
2. inflection of bete:
   1. definite singular
   2. indefinite plural

• benet

From German beten.

beten

1. prayer