beti

• IPA^(key): /beti/, [be̞.t̪i]

beti (not comparable)

1. always

beti

1. plural of beto

beti

1. measuring rope

beti

1. banana

From English bite; sense “bait” possibly from or influenced by English bait (which is itself a doublet of bite).

beti

1. to bite

beti

1. bite
2. bait

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Possibly from English belt.

beti (ma class, plural mabeti)

1. a kind of pouch used by soldiers

beti (n class, plural beti)

1. Alternative form of ubeti

From Proto-Western Oceanic *bʷatiq with irregular e and loss of *q. Not related to Proto-Oceanic *pudi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *punti, due to phonological problems, although it was proposed by Johnston (1982).

• IPA^(key): /beti/

beti

1. banana

• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 364, 370
• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.
• Lynch, John (December 2002), “The Proto-Oceanic Labiovelars: Some New Observations”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 41, issue 2, pages 310-362

Said by Voorhoeve to be from North Moluccan Malay [Term?]. Compare North Moluccan Malay pece (“mud”), Indonesian becek (“mud”), Ternate bece (“dust”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.t̪i/

beti

1. a swamp
2. mud

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics