Bett

• As an English surname, from personal names based on pet forms of Beatrice or Elizabeth, also masculine pet forms of Bertram and Bartholomew.
• As a German surname from the noun Bett.

Bett (plural Betts)

1. A surname.

From Middle High German bet, bette, from Old High German betti, from Proto-West Germanic *badi.

Cognate with German Bett, Dutch bed, English bed, Swedish bädd, Icelandic beður.

• (eastern Switzerland) IPA^(key): /betː/
• (western Switzerland) IPA^(key): /bɛtː/

Bett n (plural Better)

1. bed

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 72.

• Bette (colloquial in eastern Germany; otherwise obsolete)

From Middle High German bet, bette, from Old High German betti, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“plot, grave, resting-place, bed”).

Cognate with Low German Bedd, Dutch bed, West Frisian bêd, English bed, Swedish bädd, Icelandic beður. Doublet of Beet.

• IPA^(key): /bɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Bett n (mixed, genitive Bettes or Betts, plural Betten, diminutive Bettchen n or Bettlein n)

1. bed (piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on; one's place of sleep or rest)
2. bed (bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river)

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From Middle High German bette, from Old High German betti, from Proto-West Germanic *badi.

• IPA^(key): /bæt/

Bett n (plural Better)

1. bed

From Middle High German bette, from Old High German betti, from Proto-West Germanic *badi.

Compare German Bett, Dutch bed, English bed.

Bett n (plural Bedder)

1. bed

From Middle Low German bat, from Old Saxon bath, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ.

Bett f (plural Betten)

1. tub