Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA stroke; a blow. · A pulsation or throb. · A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. · A rhythm.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-der.? Proto-Germanic *bautaną Proto-West Germanic *bautan Old English bēatan Middle English beten English beat Inherited from Middle English beten, from Old English bēatan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push, strike”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch boten, botten, butten (“to push, strike”), German boßen (“to thrash”), Gothic *𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽 (*bautan, “to beat, strike”) (whence, probably, Galician and Portuguese botar (“to expel; to throw”)); also Latin fūstis (“club, cudgel, knobbed stick, staff”), *fūtō (“to strike”), Albanian bahe, hobe (“sling”), Armenian բութ (butʻ), բույթ (buytʻ, “thumb”).
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- Inherited-form mentionbetenenm
- Derivation mentionbēatanang · to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure
- Derivation mention*bautangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*bautanągem-pro · to push, strike
- Cognate mentionbotennl
- Cognate mentionboßende · to thrash
- Cognate mention*𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽got · to beat, strike
- Cognate mentionfūstisla · club, cudgel, knobbed stick, staff
- Cognate mentionbahesq
- Cognate mentionբութhy
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